That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

I don't care if you love me or not. I'll love you anyway.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

every end should be followed by great new beginning

this IS the time when man must be Free.

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

I'm not a developer; I am.

My future Plans - Marriage, a villa and 10 kids.

When we cooperate, everybody wins.

Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.