I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

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.

I have been preaching repentance for seventy years

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.

But I would say, you know, if you're getting married - why are you getting married? Why would you get married? Why would anybody get married?

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.

I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.