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"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."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."
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"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."
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"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
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"Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me."
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"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"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
"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
"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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"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
Desire
"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."
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"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
"The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly."
Actor
"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."
Life
"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
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