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"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype."
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"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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"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."
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"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."
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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."
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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."
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"How I was raised is what I am today."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"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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"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
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"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."
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"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."
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"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."
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"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."
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"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."
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"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."
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"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."
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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."
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"I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people."
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