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

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

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!

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.

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

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.