Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

Success is a steadily progress.You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.