But I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women`s lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist. That`s the interesting part for me. My profession has helped me to grow up.
Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don`t really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou`s next starlet looks like.
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you`re suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
It`s my first time in a lead and I have to speak English! In a Japanese accent! [on Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)].
