Daniel Wu Quotes

For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.

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• I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• I really like sort of disappearing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Really
  • Disappearing

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Grateful

• I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Think
  • Want
  • Actor

• I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Kids
  • Think
  • You

• The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Constant

• Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Professional
  • Actually

• I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fun
  • Drawing
  • Kiss

• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • God
  • Purpose

• The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Single

• He began with an exordium, containing an apology for his resignation of the office of Advocate-General in the Court of Admiralty; and for his appearance in that cause, in opposition to the Crown, and in favor of the town of Boston, and the merchants of Boston and Salem.

  

  John Adams
  • Apology

• Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

• Sic quisque pavendodat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorumquae finxere timent.

  

  Lucan

• Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Animals

• If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Good

• I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Different

• My aspirations were never anything other than I really, really admired certain singers over the years, and I just wanted to do the best I could. And that has been kind of like the way I've been fortunate enough to be able to have a career, have some success, and yet continue to learn my craft.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Career
  • Success

• After singing 'Same Love' across the nation, it's given me faith that I've underestimated the straight world.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • World
  • Faith
  • Singing

• What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

  

  Marsha Norman
  • World
  • Women
  • Children

• I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • America
  • Food

• For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.

  

  Daniel Wu