Acting is actually private.

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!

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

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.

America and China need to understand each other.

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