The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.
When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?
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.
There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
Unexpected hardship refines people; if you can accept it, both mind and body will benefit. If you cannot accept it, on the other hand, both mind and body will be harmed.
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.