If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

Acting is actually private.

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.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.