“No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right.”

There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.

The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.

I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.

I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.

I don’t live in L.A. on purpose because I don’t wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people.

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?

Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.

I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.

What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.

You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.

Incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?