Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine. They just think I'm a strange tiger who walks on two legs.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

I'm kind of a private person in a way.

People have recognized me sometimes but not much. I'm glad my life isn't too different. I don't want it to be.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.