All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Acting is actually private.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Live your life in such a way that if God should greet you with "How are you?", your answer will be "I am how you wanted me to be"! Live life without regrets!

Many Christian leaders are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.

God is like a search engine — He is willing to answer your requests, but you must ask Him the right questions.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

If a plus-size woman is not represented in fashion or on TV, what the hell are we doing?

I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

My wife's so dumb, she got a nail in the spare!!