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.

America and China need to understand each other.

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

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

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.