Quotes by Constance Wu - Page 1

People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.
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Authenticity
Desire
Passion
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I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
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Hungry
Laurels
Next Thing
Resting
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If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.
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Me People Right
Judges
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Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.
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Outside World
Programming
Authentic
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You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.
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Please
Everyone
Wrong
Please Everyone
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Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.
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Including
Public Service
Public
Service People Public Service
Service
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Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.
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Just Do It
Sake
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Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.
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Listening
Population
Begin
Serve
Underserved
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I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.
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Feels
Lose
Worse
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I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.
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Phone Calls
Calls
Inclined
Texts
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People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
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Growing Up
Shame
People Growing Up Up
Elicit
Embracing
Instead
Letting
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I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.
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Mess
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When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.
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Folding
Mindless
Shirts
Gap
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There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.
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Given
Grew
Asians
Characters
Complex
Few
On-Screen
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When I was a 12-year-old middle-schooler in Richmond, Virginia, my local newspaper published an op-ed that I wrote all by myself.
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Richmond
Virginia
Newspaper
Op-Ed
Published
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At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.
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Somewhat
Practical
Quit
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I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.
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Empty
Holes
Lifestyle
Fill
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My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.
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Furniture
Give Me
Cent
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It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.
Constance Wu /
Creates
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If the expression of and advocating for your values makes you lose a job or a person, then that person/job sorta just... wasn't your heart's tribe.
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Advocating
Tribe
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I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.
Constance Wu /
Folding
Shirts
Unemployed
Life My Life Rest
Gap
Gotta
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I am definitely trying not to take films that are mostly about dude problems, not because I don't think they're worthy problems, but there are a lot of people who will take those.
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Worthy
I Am Problems People
Dude
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Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.
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Making Money
Producers
Specificity
Asians
Invest
Encourages
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I passionately support Hillary Clinton for president because she has devoted her life to public service and has been willing to learn and change along the way by listening to the people she serves.
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Clinton
Devoted
Public Service
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Passionately
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If you watch any show that stars white people, white people aren't coming up to them like, 'Thank you for showing my face on the big screen.' Because they see their faces in popular culture all the time.
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Thank You
Big Screen
Faces
Popular Culture
Showing
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I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.
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Aspire
Honor
Absolute
Accent
Craft
Taiwanese
Trained
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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.
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Reciting
Monologue
To Be Or Not To Be
Shakespeare
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I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.
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Brave
Integrity
Losing
Outspoken
Sight
Speak
Unusual
Values
Particularly
Guide
My Life
Sense
The Only Thing
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If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.
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Capable
Hysterical
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My first Asian role model was Michelle Kwan. Her beauty comes from within. She's also really beautiful on the outside. But when I first saw her ice-skate, her performance was so moving and beautiful that she just glowed.
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Asian
Michelle
Role Model
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Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'
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Indian
Latina
African
Box
Auditioning
Check
Ethnic
Slot
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I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.
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Abandoned
Family Life
Life Alone Best
Anybody
Meaning
Present
Sob
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In terms of pure acting, my role model has always been Philip Seymour Hoffman; I really always loved what he did. I love what Mark Ruffalo does. When I was younger, I liked Cate Blanchett a lot. These are all actors who are given stories and allowed to carry the whole story.
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Philip
Pure
Love Always Acting
Cate Blanchett
Role Model
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Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.
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Asian American
Boat
Enlightening
Women Me Important
Fresh
Paying
Rent
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All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.
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Best Friend
Black Family
Financial
Fourth
Precedent
Willing
Best Family Always
Carry
Friend
Networks
Ethnic
Gain
Terms
Third
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I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.
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Likeable
Manipulative
Needy
Funny World Me
Worst Thing
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The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!
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Bunch
Clever
Deeper
Obnoxious
One-Liners
Quick
Resonate
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My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.
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Animal
Richmond
Virginia
Assigned
Dogs
Featured
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A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern problems, modern tools. Like, we're not all just talking Taoism and kung fu - some people are just trying to get over their breakup with their boyfriend, and they're Facebook-stalking.
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Boyfriend
Breakup
Talking
Tools
World Culture People
Culture World People
Times
Over
Instead
Mythical
Occupations
Problems
Some People
Times People
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My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science his whole life. Both my paternal grandparents were illiterate bamboo farmers, so he really worked his way up and then got a Ph.D., full ride and everything, from universities in America.
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Bamboo
Biology
Commonwealth
Farmers
Genetics
Illiterate
Virginia
Grandparents
His Way
Paternal
Professor
Ride
Teaches
Universities
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The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.
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American Dream
Asian
Audrey
Sinister
Achieving
Love Myself People
Horrors
Shop
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I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the two together and think that when I talk about Asian-American narratives that they can cite 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' or 'Mulan' as proof of concept when it's a different experience.
Constance Wu /
Asian
Proof
Reporters
Cite
Dragon
Hidden
Lump
Narratives
Tiger
Tune
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