The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.
A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It’s just not manly. I don’t do anything in life because I love doing it. It’s because I want to be good at it.
A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I’m not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.
A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.
I directed an episode of ‘Party of Five’ toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.
I didn’t learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
