A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

I don't care if you love me or not. I'll love you anyway.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.