In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

A low budget is uncomfortable.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train.

If Money Is Everything Then We Mean Nothing

Humans by nature are promiscuous. Loyalty is an aberration!

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.