I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

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.

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

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.

Rules and regulations are for humans.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

I love jell-o. I love the way it comes in rainbow colours, wiggles and jiggles and looks like brains.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

There is no thermometer for wants!

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective