Daniel Wu Quotes

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Want
  • Movies

• We've been probably to some degree too successful.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Successful
  • Degree
  • Some

• I was given the opportunity to run a business, but on that very same day, I understood that it comes with a lot of responsibility, and responsibility comes at a price.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Love
  • Learning

• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Movies

• Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.

  

  J Mascis
  • Time
  • Know
  • Play

• If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Right
  • Aim

• I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

  

  Vanessa Ray
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Good
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Know
  • Football
  • Finding

• I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Career
  • Me
  • Like

• I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Hope
  • Peace

• I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Assistant

• Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Perfect
  • Imagination
  • Own

• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Look

• I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

  

  Annie Wersching

• But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
  • Long
  • Job
  • Waiting

• In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Road
  • Red

• In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God and look into his face, and get the orders for the day. Then go out into the day with the sense of a hand upon your shoulder and not a chip.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Soul
  • Strong

• I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

  

  Daniel Wu