When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.

In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

To reciprocate God’s love is a sign of being a recipient

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.