Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

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.

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.