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I went to the International Ba...

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.

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I went to Indiana University f...

I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year. That's where I danced after the year they offered me a contract with the company.

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It's the sacrifice I'm not wil...

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

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It's a very obsessive professi...

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

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The young people, they don't k...

The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say 'May I come in?' They barge in, they take your seat, and you're obsolete unless you recreate and somehow find grace somewhere else. Another profession may not be like that.

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I danced in a Lifetime film. W...

I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.

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Since age 14, I know what acto...

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.

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The romantic love we feel towa...

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

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All teenagers have this desire...

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

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There are a lot of stereotypes...

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

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All Asian parents are into you...

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

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For the past few years, I was ...

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.

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Acting for me is not a bad hab...

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

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As an actress I find the most ...

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

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How I was raised is what I am ...

How I was raised is what I am today.

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I don't find intimate scenes m...

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

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How do you explain certain phy...

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid.

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I don't want to tell people wh...

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.

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The beauty in the story is at ...

The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there could be beauty
otherwise. 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.

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I was frustrated. I was doing ...

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be
great.

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