Monks Quotes

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they`re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

(On The Da Vinci Code) I`d love to make a movie that shakes the world and offends people, but I really. Didn`t think it was going to be this one. I think next to The Last Temptation of Christ it`s Tonka Toys. Nobody seemed to get offended by Martin Scorsese`s movie, no one seemed to get offended when Francis Coppola made a movie where he suggested that the mafia and the Vatican were in cahoots. Nobody picketed that. I play a monk who murders people, but it`s no more a comment on monks than it is on people who wear sandals. Or big long brown dresses.

Nobody is coming to this place to learn about Ukraine democracy or to be inspired by the courage of Tibetan monks,

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.