I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

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

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

I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.