I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

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.

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.

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.

A Dream bring us to the most Beautiful Places.

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there are no loose ends.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.