If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't really like the violin. I was only doing it because I could, and I was good at it, and everyone was encouraging me. But I didn't have a great love for it.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.