- All of our energy should be in sacrifice
and services. Suffering, at least.
- America has never paid any attention to
other people, so it's absurd for Bush to
say that it's all in the best interests of the
Iraqi people.
- At the end of your career, you've got to
find, what was it that really leapt out?
- Billions of people don't practice a religion
at all.
- Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad
dream.
- Certainly there have been better actors
than me who have had no careers. Why?
I don't know.
- 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.
- Everyone responds to kindness.
- Going to India is an opportunity to
remember, literally, what the mission is,
why we're here.
- His Holiness doesn't see himself as
Gandhi; he doesn't create dramatic,
operatic situations.
- His Holiness is my root guru, and he's
been quite tough with me at times.
- His Holiness said, if you can love and
respect an insect, something we
instinctively are repulsed by, then that's a
huge step.
- I actually encountered the written
dharma, and I met a teacher. Before that,
I was engaged in philosophical pursuit in
school.
- I can't say I have control over my
emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost
like everyone else. I'm certainly not a
leader.
- I cry every chance I get.
- I do think that good actors can do any
part. It doesn't mean that they are the
best ones to do it.
- I don't know any of us who are in
relationships that are totally honest - it
doesn't exist.
- I don't know if I was suicidal, but I had
questions like, Why anything? I was
probably pushing the edges of my own
sanity.
- I don't think that bravery is about skin.
Bravery is about a willingness to show
emotional need.
- I honestly do not think about celebrity or
image or sexual expectations on me. It
only comes up when people have a list of
questions. But what I am told is that
there is a quality that I have onscreen,
where it's a little bit of everything.
- I know pretty much who I am. It's good
for me to be in the world.
- I never thought of it in terms of the
leading man or not leading man, or
whatever. I don't think it changes.
- I said, There's this thing at the very end
where I do this tap dance, and I've never
tapped.
- I talk about these things, but only in the
sense that this is what my teachers have
given me. Nothing from me.
- I'll try to catch up with all my teachers.
Some of them are hermits up in the hills,
but they come down when His Holiness
gives teachings.
- I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in
shape like I was when I was 30.
- I'm less needy about needing to express
myself through acting. I have many
different lives outside of this that are
extremely fulfilling.
- I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I
need life telling me who I am, showing me
my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a
cave.
- I'm voting for Gore because the other is
unthinkable. Which most of us will
probably do. I hope all of us. I've always
liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a
real third party, but the thought of
George Bush as president is unthinkable.
- I've been married now a couple of times.
- I've had a lot of teachings, and some
have stuck. Somehow they do
communicate-not because of me, but
despite me.
- If someone came up with the Loch Ness
Monster, I'd be interested.
- If the United States marches into Iraq
without the backing of the United Nations,
that will be done entirely without the
backing of the American people.
- If the work is going well and it's
something that has value with some
meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
- If we are so lost in our animal natures,
the best way to start to get out of that is
to learn to be kind.
- In a way, one gets stability from being
able to order the rational mind.
- In saving Tibet, you save the possibility
that we are all brothers, sisters.
- It completely changed my life the first
time I was in the presence of His Holiness.
No question about it.
- It is remarkable that an entire people is
imbued with a spirit of gentleness.
- Just a picture of His Holiness seems to
communicate so much. Just to see his
face. It's arresting, and at the same time
it's opening.
- Life here is an incredible distraction. It's
very easy to get off track.
- Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person
who is totally honest, and even with him,
he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's
skillful.
- Meditation is such a more substantial
reality than what we normally take to be
reality.
- My first encounter with Buddhist dharma
would be in my early 20s. Like most
young men, I was not particularly happy.
- My involvement in a career, in a normal
householder life, is a great challenge for
deepening the teachings inside of me.
- Obviously, problems come with no
separation of church and state.
- People sometimes have quite a romantic
vision of His Holiness.
- Tantra has become less romantic to me. It
seems more familiar.
- The absolute is the wind blowing; it's just
the fact that there was a storm that day.
- The analytical approach to working with
the mind is enormously helpful. It's
something very clear to fall back on.
- The anger that I might have felt 20 years
ago is quite different now.
- The Dalai Lama said that he thinks
mother's love is the best symbol for love
and compassion, because it is totally
disinterested.
- The incredible suffering of the people of
Tibet works symbolically, but also works
in a very fundamental way.
- The motivation is probably less egocentric
now in terms of my need to do it, but to
work with great people.
- The present Tibet bridges the dreamlike
and the utterly real.
- The secret of my success is my hairspray.
- There is kind of this cosmic reality of the
wind, whatever that is. Karma, in a larger
sense.
- There is nothing real about film. Nothing.
Even the light particles that project the
film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is
there.
- There's really one character for every
actor. The voyage is to find that one
character.
- Tibet had extremely limited American
involvement.
- Tibet will be taken care of in the process,
but it's about saving every sentient being.
- Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous
impact on me.
- We've had too many World AIDS Days.
- Western Buddhists in many ways are
much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
- What we all have in common is an
appreciation of kindness and compassion;
all the religions have this. We all lean
towards love.
- Whatever I've learned in the process
certainly feeds who I am as a man, the
people around me and my family.
- Whatever positive energies have touched
people in myriad lifetimes are going to
come through somehow.
- When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace
Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not
seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he
belongs to the world.
- When I started acting, it was really the
way for me to be able to communicate.
- When someone has a strong intuitive
connection, Buddhism suggests that it's
because of karma, some past connection.
- When space is not there for you, the
intellectual work will still keep you buoyed
up.
- When you work as an actor, you've got to
feel safe even in what appears to be the
simplest things.
- Why is it when we have 10 million people
in this country who say 'No', we still have
a president who says 'Yes.' In a
democracy, something's wrong here.
- You can imagine what it would have been
like to see the Buddha. Just to see his
face would put you so many steps ahead.
- You don't want to be watching your back
or thinking that you are being judged.
- Anything that gets the film in front of
people is good, because then they can
evaluate the work on its own merit ...
When you're working on movies yourself,
it's sometimes hard to get to the theater,
so DVD is important.
