Harry Shum, Jr. Quotes
When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I studied drama.
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On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
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For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.
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Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
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It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
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When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.
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Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.
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'The Invitation' is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it's about a dinner party gone horribly wrong and about the consequences of denying our pain.
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A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.
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Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama.
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Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!
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You have to love dancing to stick to it.
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I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
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Nothing ages like laziness.
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When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.
