As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

An actor is only merchandise.

I don't like muscles too much. Flexibility and a relaxed look are more important.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.

Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

The disciplined are free.

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.