You are awareness, disguised as a person.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.