The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.
I was lucky on 'Arli$$. ' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.
Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L. A. but it's strangely segregated.
Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.
I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.
Detachment is the beginning of mastery.
Work as smart as you are able.