I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Glimpse is a meeting of dreamers in the silent night sky.

Am I an illusion?

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.

A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.