When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

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.

As we’re bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school

And makes me poor indeed.