Actress Quotes

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.

But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I'm not really into weight training.

I love nature.

I like to do Pilates.

I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

I grew up in New York.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do tha

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!