I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

I don't care if you love me or not. I'll love you anyway.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.

You don't know if the water is hot or cold until you stick your toe in.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

I'm still making my decision in the next few days on what path I'm going to take. What really makes me excited now is to continue to give back to the sport.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.