I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being onstage but going into rehearsals. The thing, as I look back on it now, that I was most attracted to, was that I felt like I'd found my family. It was just a bunch of loonies.

So I made daddy smile and I took a picture and made this silly thing and he never let go of it, he was five months and this thing went with him everywhere we went.

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.