If I have a chance to try in Hollywood I will grab it. What is important is that the work is good - if it's a good role I will grab it. I simply want to do good work and I don't mind where it is.

I don’t know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.

I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I've definitely had someone ask to touch [my hair] . That weirded me out a little bit.

Perseverance: Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.