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.

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.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

We not only need to be willing to give but also to be open to receiving from others.

Man is not made for defeat.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

We can't let others judge information for us.

The God which cannot give me food in this world, cannot give me Heaven in the other world

When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.