If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

I've always maintained that all characters and all personalities are in all of us. The whole thing is available. You're not this or that, no one is.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.