Being is like pretending.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is totally of life.

Acting is happy agony.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

Would you risk your life for love?

Drama was always clogging up the phone line. It's like that's what people call me for.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.