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I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.

When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.