I'm used to taking risks - my career was a risk. Being a stand-up comic is not something that's normally accepted when your mother is Filipino.
What I enjoy the most about being Filipino is our culture.
I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.
A lot of film acting is about being casual.
I didn't dream of being in television or film. But then I got married pretty young and had children, and I wanted to feed the children, so I worked a lot of film and television.
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It's more about that same story being filtered through somebody else's sensibility.
I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.
I know you can be funny without being filthy.
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.
There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
I love what I do, both aspects - fighting and being a firefighter and paramedic.
