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I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.