“A lot of people kind of want to wait until you’re off a show before they book you into a movie.”

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you’re kind of saving the world.

I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so lucky that I met with an agent

I never really said I wanted to be a TV star, when I was a kid.

You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we’ve got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives’ story lines

You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

What’s going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.

He sent me on an audition for a TV pilot, and I happened to book it. It was like complete luck that it happened.

I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there’s a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.

The theater and film, they’re like two completely different mediums.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it’s been an amazing learning curve.

To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.

There’s nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.