We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

Don't expect a good life, just expect to be good in life." -Joseph Jiyun Yang

A writer is never alone

Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked.“No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.

True followers of Christ emulate Christ—true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.

Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.