I cry every chance I get.

I've had an interesting life.

Everyone responds to kindness.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

I have a lot of beautiful friends.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

My life is pretty simple and normal.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

I have to admit, a manicured look works for me.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

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

I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

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

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

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

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

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

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

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.

It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

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

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

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

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

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

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

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

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

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

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

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

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

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

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