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 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.

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.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

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.

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.