Harry Shum, Jr. Quotes

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

Harry Shum, Jr.

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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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Growth

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Youth

• 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.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Experience
  • Journey
  • Sad

• It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Bad
  • Gossip

• 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.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• I'm not ashamed to be gay.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Gay

• I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • City
  • Door

• I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Work
  • Different
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Fun
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Home
  • Water

• You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Believe
  • Science

• 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.

  

  James Spader
  • Good
  • Picture

• When you slow down enough to sculpt, you discover all kinds of things you never noticed before.

  

  Kari Jobe
  • Discover
  • Noticed
  • Sculpt

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Kill
  • Superman
  • Injuries

• We were in Greenville, South Carolina, where he lived, and he was coming the next day to the show, but he passed away the night before. I was very close to my grandfather. He was the first guy to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, so (his death) meant a lot to me. It just gave me a perspective on life and how important it is to live it and enjoy it while we're here. Sometimes we're looking for the grass to be greener, and what's awesome is right in front of you.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison
  • Life
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Superman
  • Plane