People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.

It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.

Being a Buddhist monk means never losing one's optimism in spite of all difficulties. It also means being harder on yourself than any of your teachers ever were.

My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

I could eat gazpacho three times a day.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.