All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

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.

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.

Never deny a diagnosis but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it.

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

Have I allowed my personal human life to become a 'Bethlehem' for the Son of God?

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.