It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

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.

People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

No lie ever reaches old age.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.

In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.