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.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

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.

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.