I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

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.

Principal Totty was one of those people who frown while they’re speaking, and then smile at the end of each sentence. It was weird. It was like there were two different people inside her brain.

When there is no specific task, the human’s subconscious mind will be in a passive state

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

Everything's been a struggle for me.

I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.