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.

I don’t find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

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.

I never went on an audition – when they were really looking at everybody.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since age 14, 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.

I take class. I’m always ballet ready. I’m ready to go – got my tights and my shoes.