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.
There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.
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.
I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.
I have a lot of beautiful friends.
People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.
I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.
Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.
In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.
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.
I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.
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.
Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
