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" I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me. "

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" I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate. "

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" I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do. "

" I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings. "

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" My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut. "

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