Acting Is Actually Private.

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.

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.

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.

Not Very Many Companies Go Through Hawaii On Their Way To Anywhere. San Francisco Ballet Was The Only Company I Remember, And Bolshoi, Coming Through Hawaii When I Was Younger.

I Never Went On An Audition - When They Were Really Looking At Everybody.