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

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

In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and Bolshoi, coming through Hawaii when I was younger.

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.

Acting is actually private.