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

” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

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 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.

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!

. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.