I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

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.

Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think.

To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

Friends are the best therapy.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.