Acting is actually private.
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 I was raised is what I am today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
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.
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.
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.
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.
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!