“Originality is really important.”

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It’s the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.

I just want to be myself.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

When things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

One of the most corrosive threats to society moving forward is social media and right wing disinformation.

I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy.

The question I love to get asked is: ‘What’s the hardest part of your job?’ And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it’s to just to be me. Like, it’s really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there’s this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, ‘Well, you say I’m a pop star, so maybe that’s not true.’

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

First things first, I’m da realest.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes – distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.