From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.
I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.
It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.
I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.
If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.
If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.
I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.
Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.
I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.
The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.
I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.
I don't miss acting in films. I haven't had that many good experiences with it. If I had, I probably would like it more.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.
For me to make a living acting silly for as long as I can get away with it, I think the most viable way to make that happen is to evolve into more traditional comedy. I've really been putting in the work.
I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.
To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.
Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
