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"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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