Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I'm a humble guy, okay?

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

Early in my career, I was galvanized by a disease that ravaged my country and many others around the world: malaria.

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.