Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

You have to start thinking a little differently as an actor.

I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"

I'm always excited to do the fight scenes.

I was a total sci-fi geek. Star Wars was my ultimate favorite.

What I want is the same opportunities as anyone to get a part.

I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

A man's rivals tell you how great he is.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.