Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

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.

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward.

You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.