I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.