Harry Shum, Jr. Quotes
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
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It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
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I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
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I'm not ashamed to be gay.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
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I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
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When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
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In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B. guns were not even a part of the conversation.
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You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
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You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.
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On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state (something that is by no means incompatible with honest barbarity), but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
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Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.
