A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.

We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.