I Would Say It's Like A Meditative

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.

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.

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 Went To The International Ballet Competition When I Was 15 Or 16 And That Was The First Time I Competed. I Didn't Get Very Far But It Was The First Time That I Realized What I Needed To Do To Become A Dancer. I Realized How Hard It Was.

The Beauty In The Story Is At One With Suffering. That Is Also Part Of Our Upbringing - We Don't Think There Could Be Beauty Otherwise. 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.