I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.