I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.

And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go.

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

If people doubt you, then you made progress from "who cares?

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.