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.

I cry every chance I get.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

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.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

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.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

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 a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

Never a failure,always a lesson

People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it's hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Single life is so overrated.

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

I threw my hands in the air and said show me something. He said, "if you dare come a little closer".

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.

I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I could never identify with that word, 'weak.'