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"Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways."

"The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself."

"I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career."

"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
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"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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!"

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

"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."
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