Friendship. . . is like pain. Explaining it is impossible.
I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.
There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.
You have to start thinking a little differently as an actor.
I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.
[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.
If your mind dislike anything obey it
The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you. . . a truth. . . that used to elude you.