Harry Shum, Jr. Quotes

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

Harry Shum, Jr.

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• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  

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• I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

  

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• This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

  

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• The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

  

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• The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

  

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• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  

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• I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Actor
  • Middle School