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.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself you don't need those techniques.

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.