Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That's true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

That which hinders your task is your task.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.

Stand-up was interesting to me at the beginning, because I was trying to parody it. My early stand-up was really Andy Kaufman-esque, and then I became the very thing I was making fun of.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.