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.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

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.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.