Other than a gift for the interpretation of fiction, are there any other skills or personal qualities that you picked up during your time as a monk that have come in useful in your acting career?
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
As religion is fiction, my first 22 years were passed in its marinade. All my aunts and uncles also were steeped in its nonsense and felt consoled by it. And still there are millions of people who are still consoled by nonsense; nothing else will do. And as the world is full of it, they're sure of consolation and I say, good luck to them.