There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

Love Is An Act Of Valour.

Yeah, Mel! If she shoves you again, smack her in the face!" bellowed Mika.Kira glared at Mika. "I mean, beat her in the race!

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

I travel by myself a lot. Most of the time I'm by myself.

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.