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.

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.

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

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.

Oh, don't mind me, " came an extremely sarcastic voice near the wall. “You two go ahead and make out–I'll just sit here and bleed quietly.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!