I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

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.

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

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

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

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

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.