Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners belong to other uncomplicated fairy tales.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.