I would say it's like a meditative process, to have everything done for you every morning.

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.

Everything’s possible and nothing’s not.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

I don't think so. Anyways, I don't spend money. My wife spends money...sorry wife.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.