Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.
I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.
I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.
There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.
When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.
I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.
I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.
I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip.
