“My father is a very caring and generous individual.”

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have,

In turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

My mom is a senator back home in South Africa.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man.

It’s very gratifying when that’s what you’re going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.

I’m able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.

But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they’ll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English.

Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

In gold sandals / dawn like a thief / fell upon me.

What cannot be said will be wept.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.