Quotes

My father was an American missionary and my mother was a Japanese singer, so I'm half Asian but people say I take after my mother. As for my siblings, I'm the middle child of six boys and girls.

It's funny the things you think are impossible until you actually try them, you know?

Whenever I go out into the real world, someone has to mention that I'm in the show before they recognize me because I dress so differently from Alice.

My family still lives two hours outside of Tokyo, so I try to make it back at least every Christmas.

On Twitter, you follow people, right?

I think that whenever the writers write something that forces you to stretch a little as an actor you have to grow to be able to do that. Even little things cumulatively build up.

I think I'm the kind of person that always wants to expand but on the same token I love everybody on "The Secret Life" and it's been such a dream job for me.

We all know people who have done things too early and paid the price, but some are really happy.

It's funny because I do like to do all of it, when I am just producing or directing I don't know if I'd been 100% fulfilled. But just acting I'm not 100% fulfilled. I love to be apart of the whole creative process.

Alot of our environment really guides us in our life cultures: who we get jealous of and who we don't. Our society is ok with getting married and then getting divorced, where as a long time ago people didn't do that. People stayed together for so long maybe even if they weren't in love.