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

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

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

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

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.

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.