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"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."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."
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"I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them."
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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."
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"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."
Love
"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."
Hunger
"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
People
"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."
People
"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
"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."
Care
"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
Acting
"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."
Beauty
"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."
People
"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."
Movies
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