Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

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.

The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful.

If knowledge is lacking, your destruction is inevitable. Hosea 4:6

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

Success comes to those who are aware of failure but are success conscious

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

I'll say that you were so beautiful, you made me do ridiculous, reckless things.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.