From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

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