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.

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

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.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

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.

Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.