We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.
There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.
Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
Thank God for the theater.
There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.
You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.
I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
