Lucy Liu Quotes

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Lucy Liu

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• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • American
  • Small

• I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Think
  • Effect
  • Matrix

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Nice
  • Start
  • Building

• Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Business
  • Day

• When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Thanks
  • Short
  • Social Media

• In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Up
  • Education
  • Day

• I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Food
  • Italian

• I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Career
  • Look
  • Talking

• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Live
  • Money

• It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Me
  • Inspired
  • Easy

• The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Long
  • Book
  • Power

• My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Mom
  • Texas
  • Florida

• Freddie Aguilar, who's billed as 'the Bob Dylan of the Philippines.' This is unfair, since he's good-looking, plays the guitar well, can carry a tune, and writes songs that make sense.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good

• The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • People
  • Support
  • Worthy

• At some point during my travels, I had a slight change of focus which would end up defining the rest of my career. I began taking pictures of people. In addition to all the buildings, street signs and fire hydrants, I started photographing some of the interesting humans that passed by me on the street.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Father
  • Husband
  • Hours

• Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Reading
  • Wife

• Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

  

  Lucy Liu