When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.
From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.
I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.
I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.
Everyone responds to kindness.
I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
