When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

Knowing is knowing that knowing is not knowing.

I've been acting since I was 10. At age 14, 15 and 16 it's difficult to find roles and to find yourself even and when everyone's eyes are on you, it's difficult.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.

You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.