"Acting is actually private."

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"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."

Hunger, Kids, Poor, Poverty

"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."

Life,

"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."

Job,

"I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't."

Advice, Being, Giving

"I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete."

Care, Career, Children, Will

"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."

People, Want

"How I was raised is what I am today."

Today,

"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."

People, Acting, Drama

"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."

Movies, Success, Girls, Past

"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."

Acting, Want

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"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Acting, Jobs

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

John Boorman, British Director

Acting, Actors, Being

"If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States."

Martin Van Buren, American President

Acting, Laws, Limits, States

"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Acting, Being, Man

"In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Acting, Space, Writing

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Acting, Sensuality

"Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways."

Jennifer Capriati, American Athlete

Acting, Mistakes

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Acting, Writing

"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."

Charles Churchill, English Poet

Acting, Crime, Danger, Lies

"It's an acting job - acting natural."

Alistair Cooke, American Journalist

Acting, Job