When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

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.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar