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I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.

Quotes by Will McIntosh

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

Quotes by Torii Hunter

I try to do other characters that are different from Monk, obviously, because I'd like to be remembered for more than just that.

Quotes by Tony Shalhoub

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

Quotes by Ted King

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.

Quotes by Steve Lacy

You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.

Quotes by Scott Ellis

In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.

Quotes by Saul Rubinek

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

Quotes by Satish Kumar

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

Quotes by Robert Christgau

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile.

Quotes by Rich Mullins

I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.'

Quotes by Nell Scovell

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

Quotes by Moby

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

Quotes by Mimi Rogers

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Quotes by Matthew Shipp

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.

Quotes by Kabir Bedi

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

John Keats

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

Quotes by John Gourley

'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.

Quotes by James Roday

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Quotes by Hugh Jackman

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

Quotes by Harsha Bhogle

A habit does not a monk make.

Quotes by Francois Rabelais

Being an actor is like being a monk: you have got to be dedicated.

Quotes by David Jason

I should have been a Trappist monk.

Quotes by David Blunkett

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

Dalai Lama

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

Dalai Lama

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

Quotes by Cecil Taylor

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

Quotes by Burton Cummings

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

Quotes by Adam Driver

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