Daniel Wu Quotes
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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.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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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.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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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.
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If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
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I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.
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I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
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I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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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.
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I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.
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I'm never satisfied.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.
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I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.
