A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

The mind is the sacred centre of all attraction.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

Maybe deep down inside we were all still in our formative years. Maybe it was never too late for any of us to change.

It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.