The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

Acting is actually private.

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

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

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.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

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.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

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.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

How I was raised is what I am today.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

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

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it.

At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I've always designed, and I would literally design everything I'd see: cars, bikes, motorcycles - everything.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremendous frustration. Did you ever notice that while men often refer to their wives as best friends, women usually refer to another woman in that way?

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. Its as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer not a dreamer.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!