Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

I've always said it's flattering to be desired, just as it's flattering that people accept the reality of the character you play. But it was always ridiculous to assume that because I could play a gigolo on screen I'd play anything like that role off screen.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.