“Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.”

there’s always a process of getting to know one another.

I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.

So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.

Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it’s unfortunate.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I’d try to reenact it.

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.

I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.

It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.

How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.

Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

I think you have to be fair with one another. It’s unfortunate when someone does something that’s not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.

There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.

My parents have raised me with a sense of what’s really important and have given me decent values, and I’m comfortable, but I haven’t lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I’ve kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.

The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don’t see the Taliban coming back in any way.

The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

Actually, all paths lead away from the truth…how’s that? All paths. There’s no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth’s already here, where are you going?

There are many, many books I’ve read and I think this is quite naïve actually because we all just try to uncover something.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

What gets taken away are all the exterior means we thought we wanted love to come to us. You have the choice to notice the perfect set up to see love is exactly what you are.