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"I think we had to be won over to the Cylon cause right at day one; otherwise it was going to be very difficult to play it. At least for me it was anyway. I thought it was very difficult to play always knowing that she was the enemy, because I wasn't actually in her shoes. It was always the enemy. I would actually get very active on the miniseries when people -- because of the whole reveal at the end of her being a Cylon -- were like "Oh, Cylon, bad, bad, bad!" I would, like, snap and come down on crew people. I would be like, "Do not say that!""
"I had to do this one sex
scene for Battlestar that wasn’t a bedroom scene. It was outside in a forest
under a lightning-and-thunder shower. I was like, 'So you want some crazy
forest sex? OK, I gotcha.' In the end, they had to totally edit it down and
take out all my moaning."
"I auditioned like any other job. Originally I auditioned for Dualla, then Starbuck. Finally, they didn't know what to do with me so they gave me this tiny part to play of Sharon."
"I’ll give it to you: The
Raptor is a reconnaissance platform, in other words, it’s a carrier-based
stealth scout ship. It has multiple capabilities, but our main purpose is
atmosphere and space early warning, and command and control functions for
the carrier battle group. We provide real time info; we are the eyes and
ears of the fleet. Basically it provides reconnaissance information for the
Battlestar, but we have a lot of additional missions: we do surface
surveillance coordination, strike and interceptor control, and search and
rescue guidance. For the crew, there’s the pilot and then there’s the radar
platform operator, Helo. I’m the pilot, he’s my co-pilot. I'm not the expert
on all the technology, he’s the expert on all the radar and stuff. There are
some big shoes left to fill. We also have reception, analysis, jamming and
manipulation capabilities of electronic or electromagnetic signals, along
with laser-torpedo guns, missiles, commo pods, swallows, jiggers, drones,
and markers." "Karaoke scares me."
"We’ve done so many scenes where I’ll ask Tricia [Helfer], ‘What are you guys looking at?’ and she’ll go, ‘We have no idea. The director didn’t tell us anything.’"
[Sharon] "She's so broken down, you know? She doesn't even realize it. It's like the learned helplessness. She's been like an elephant with a chain around her neck for her whole life now."
“I was really into hip-hop until I went to Ibiza. Now I’m a big ‘house’ freak. We went to club after club and I wanted to go on but we had a friend waiting at the hotel. Man, did I smell, but it was great.”
"I have to say, though, I did tease [a writer] yesterday. I show up on set with this bandage on my face and all these bruises, and I ask him, ”What kind of women issues are you guys dealing with?” "
"Rather than focus on the lack of predefined roles for Asians, it's incumbent upon us to help Hollywood see the full deck of cards and to see what we can do."
"Helo and Sharon fall in love and it's almost like they're bridging the gap but they're both in the void."
"My dream of becoming a research scientist ended when we were discussing invertebrates and different muscles that move flies' wings."
"I never though I'd one day date a Korean man, let alone marry one. I love the people, the culture and ever thing else… except for the chauvinism that I can't stand. Fortunately, Phil has been a gentleman, a great friend and a lovely husband. I can be horrible and he's still there. He's a keeper because we both share this part of the wedding vow "… to have and to hold". I hold what he has."
"I've always been interested in movies but have never spoken a line in one...until last week. I just worked on "West 32nd" with John Cho, by Michael Kang who most recently did "The Motel." Fantastic. Itching to explore all things Korean now."
"The show's publicist one day called and said, "Would you be interested in doing Maxim?" And I said, "Do I get the cover?" And she said no. And I said, "Hell yeah!" "
"There's a lot of Jewish people in L.A. and I didn't know that! I was like, "Jewfro? What's a Jewfro?" And half the people were laughing. I was like, "What are you guys in on?" What's matzo ball soup? What's actually in it? Everybody just knows, right? I was like, "Is it meat? Is it flour?" I just had my first a few months ago."
"I was in Starbucks the other day and some guy said “Cylon!” when he saw me. He kind of yelled at me and I was just like, “Yep, I do play a Cylon.”"
"There was one time where my husband and I tried visiting the Taj Mahal and the place we stayed was so nasty that we went to bed fully-clothed. There was no nookie whatsoever, just a peck on the cheek. Another time, in Rio, we were in a crowd of thousands and my husband got mugged really quickly by a girl. He was shit scared but I said, “that’s awesome.” If you always go high class, you don’t get that exhilaration. You get better stories this way."
"I thought you were talking about my crack habit or my addiction to Croatian porn. I’m glad we didn’t have to go there."
"I’m pretty smart. It’s like how you shrink in life, height-wise—that started to happen to my intelligence, sadly enough. Can’t you tell? I can’t finish some of these sentences."
"I used to try and tan in front of a fireplace. Me and my sister. We’d put suntan lotion on, and then we’d sit in front of the fireplace. Our parents were there too, and they didn’t even stop us. We just got really close to the fire, as close as you could without burning yourself. And then you get all flush and you’re like, “Oh my god! It’s working! Yes, you look more tan!” "
"I think I was pretty cocky before. I didn’t realize how cocky I was. Aren’t we all cocky growing up? Until you get wiser. Or you get stupider."
"I'm convinced that some day ComicCon is going to merge with the Burning Man Festival and devour America." |