In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

I'm not very good at dating. I'm very decisive. If I like someone, then they're my boyfriend. It's pretty straightforward.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

That job [on Out to Sea], more than any I've ever done, I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. And not only that, but I had a great part. So it was just beyond fun on every level.

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?