I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer