If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

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.

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

I'm not running to manage the decline of this great country. I'm running to make real changes in D.C.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off.

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.