Godfrey Gao Quotes

Taiwan, Actor
September 22, 1984 – November, 27, 2019.

Godfrey Gao was a Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor. Described as Asia's first male supermodel, Gao was the first male Asian model to appear in a campaign for Louis Vuitton. As an actor, he was known for his roles as Magnus Bane in the 2013 film adaptation of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, and for his leading role in the Chinese television series Remembering Lichuan.

Also known as Model

In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

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- Trying
- Pretty
- Deadline
Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

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After I grew some facial hair, I looked a bit older, and I guess that's what the modeling world wanted because I started booking more luxury brands.

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- World
- Hair
- Grew
Hopefully I can go back and forth from the United States to Asia. I feel joint productions could be the way of the future. I'll need a private plane to charter the international waters!

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I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.

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- Great
- Culture
- Food
I kind of got into TV when I went to visit a show my brother was working on. Soon I got the second lead in a TV show.

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Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

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- Chinese
- Strange
- Read
'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.

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- Pretty
- Popular
- Novels

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

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- Dream
- Play
- Childhood
My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.

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- Mind
- Friend
- Wife