Lucy Liu Quotes

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.
Lucy Liu

Dating, Funny, Everything

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.
Lucy Liu

Time, Place, Becoming

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.
Lucy Liu

Business, Person, Sometimes

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.
Lucy Liu

Woman, Wonder, Incredible

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
Lucy Liu

Appreciate, Superhero, Hopefully

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.
Lucy Liu

Try, Characters

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.
Lucy Liu

Become, Physical, Definitely

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.
Lucy Liu

Thought, Point, Competing

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
Lucy Liu

English, Speaking, Sopranos

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.
Lucy Liu

It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.
Lucy Liu

Fear, Fun, Away

Japanimation is a whole different art form.
Lucy Liu

Art, Different, Whole

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
Lucy Liu

Men, Movies, Cool

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.
Lucy Liu

Find, Nobody, Tells

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
Lucy Liu

Character, Put, Once

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Lucy Liu

Emotional, Violence, Action

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
Lucy Liu

Work, Win, Energy

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.
Lucy Liu

Sexy, Different, Whole

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
Lucy Liu

Thought, Concerned, Issue

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
Lucy Liu

Work, Hurt, Using

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
Lucy Liu

Women, Fight, Makes

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Lucy Liu

Women, Fight, Together

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
Lucy Liu

Different, Working, Fighting

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.
Lucy Liu

Forward, Keep, Looking

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
Lucy Liu

Work, Respect, Business

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 2, 1968

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