Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.