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" Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing. "
Smoking
Love
Acting
" Acting is actually private. "
Private
Actually
Acting
" All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents. "
Children
Acting
Job
" All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away. "
Desire
Run
Away
" As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director. "
Acting
Want
Find
" Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further. "
Experience
You
Result
" 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. "
Think
Past
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. "
People
Think
Acting
" How I was raised is what I am today. "
I Am
How
Today
" I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes. "
More
Than
Difficult
" I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it. "
People
Tell
Think
" If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it. "
You
Doing
Job
" 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. "
Like
Know
Fear
" I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody. "
Looking
Everybody
Audition
" 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. "
You
Children
Care
" I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't. "
Giving
Person
Believe
" My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport. "
Moment
Life
Apply
" 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. "
Hunger
Poverty
Meat
" The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. "
Expectation
Me
Here
" The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet. "
Budget
Than
Better
" There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype. "
Broken
Me
People
" 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! "
Money
People
Happy
" There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother. "
Know
Mother
Motherhood
" The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. "
God
Romantic
Love Is
" When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed. "
Stronger
Feel
You
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