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“I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.”

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For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.

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I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

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I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

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For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.

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In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor,…

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For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the…

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I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

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I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then…

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Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.

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