Constance Wu Quotes
I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
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I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.
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Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
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I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
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I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
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I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be...' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.
