America And China Need To Understand Each

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.

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.

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.

It's A Very Obsessive Profession That You Need To Stay Obsessed To Get Anywhere, And It's Very Easy For Us To Get Obsessed And Then Nothing Else Matters. I Was Reading Somerset Maugham's Novella, Moon And Sixpense, About This Artist Based On Gauguin's Life. It Was So Beautifully Written. You Must Be First Rate Because Second Rate You Might Not Survive. If You're An Accountant, You'll Survive Second Rate. If You Chance It Big, You May Not Get Anywhere.

I Grew Up In Honolulu. It's Not The Ballet Cultural Mecca By Any Stretch Of The Imagination. People Are Much More Familiar With Hula Than They Are With Ballet.