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

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.

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

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 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.

It is better to have someone that likes you and makes you happy than to have someone that loves you and makes you unhappy.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love.

One definition of success is achieving what your haters don't want you to achieve. Them wanting you not to achieve it means it's worth a lot.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.