I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

My job is all about defending the people that I play.

I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.