The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.

Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

Working on the samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

I find that the most special thing to me is if you've connected to people in some way: If someone comes up to you on the street and says something to you, and you know it's meant something to them, and it's connected to some project. That, I find, is amazing.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too.

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

For me to get out in the congressional district that I represent and see all the things that we manufacture there, produce there, to get to know its people better, its businesses better and its government leaders better, all of those things have enriched me.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

Codifying discrimination in our laws should be something we read about in American history, not on the front pages of today's American newspapers and magazines.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.