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.

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.

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.

If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.

There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

Yeah, I remember that day... At that day I choose a book now is few years later and so far I never open it...

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.

People shouldn't be afraid to bring up issues of bias in law enforcement.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.