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There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

My English is very bad.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

I'm a Buddhist.