I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe..

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

People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the le….

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling..

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality..

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say ….

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other..

America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people..

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes..

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes..

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life..

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

We've had too many World AIDS Days..

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and han….

Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited..

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot..

When I am in Tibet, I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. The Dalai Lama's holiness generates love and compassion to ….

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations..

I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the te….

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal..

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it..