What I want is the same opportunities as anyone to get a part.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

You have to start thinking a little differently as an actor.

I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"

I'm always excited to do the fight scenes.

I was a total sci-fi geek. Star Wars was my ultimate favorite.

Both my parents are chefs I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

Some there be that shadow kiss

He'd saved her life and killed her trust. He'd thought it a fair trade, at the time.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?