Acting is actually private.

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.

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.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

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.

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

I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an artist. I need to always do it.