If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

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.

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.