Quotes by Daniel Wu - Page 1

My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.
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Sister
Modeling
Asked
Try
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I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.
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Crisis
Mid Life Crisis
Mid-Life
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It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
Daniel Wu /
Asian American
Star
Objective
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I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.
Daniel Wu /
Falling In Love
Ended
Falling
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I really feel that Hong Kong is my home, and Hong Kong is my identity as an actor.
Daniel Wu /
Hong Kong
Identity
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I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.
Daniel Wu /
Filmmaking
Gamble
Anyway
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We'll see what I do after 'Badlands' to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts.
Daniel Wu /
Martial Arts
Audiences
Besides
Martial
Repertoire
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I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
Daniel Wu /
America
Lucky
Build
Career
Films
Outside
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For Mandarin scripts, there's software now where you can just insert the Chinese script, and it comes out all in pinyin.
Daniel Wu /
Chinese
Insert
Scripts
Software
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Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.
Daniel Wu /
Big Screen
Chinese
Idolized
Me People American
Bruce
Star
Lee
Screen
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For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.
Daniel Wu /
Bane
Sixteen
Stereotype
Candles
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Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
Daniel Wu /
Hong Kong
Performers
Perform
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For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.
Daniel Wu /
Flexible
Normal People
Stretch
Tightened
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I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.
Daniel Wu /
Asia
Chinese
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At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
Daniel Wu /
Diversion
People Way Doing
Genres
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You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.
Daniel Wu /
Angle
Movement
Powerful
Camera
Gotta
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I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.
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Bay Area
Hong Kong
Lifestyle
Miles
Bay
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If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you're pretty much done, and then you're useless.
Daniel Wu /
Body
Body Fat
Hours
Useless
Fat
Pretty
Burn
Quickly
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What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.
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Zero
Genre
Hero
Chi
Cooler
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After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.
Daniel Wu /
Acting
Artist
Speak
Freeing
Incredibly
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I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.
Daniel Wu /
Enjoyment
Life And Death
Loss
Experienced
Passed
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It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.
Daniel Wu /
Jet
Martial Arts
Martial
Temple
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For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.
Daniel Wu /
Rewrite
Standardized
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I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job.
Daniel Wu /
Asia
Hong Kong
University
Witness
Backpack
Graduating
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In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor, but you're also a professional athlete. You have to train.
Daniel Wu /
Athlete
Professional Athlete
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I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.
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Chemistry
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There's a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like 'Transformers' making more money over there than here.
Daniel Wu /
Chinese
Transformers
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I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.
Daniel Wu /
Available
Productions
Low-Budget
Studio Films
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Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn't just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.
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Renaissance
Aspects
Master
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I really dislike the fact that Asian males are constantly emasculated, whether it's American TV or films. You see it all the time, and it's so weird that they don't see sexuality in Asian men.
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Dislike
Males
Sexuality
Weird
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To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.
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Asia
Stamina
Gain
Recover
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In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.
Daniel Wu /
Bryant
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When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
Daniel Wu /
San Francisco
Francisco
San
Saturdays
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Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.
Daniel Wu /
Careers
Males
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I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.
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Logic
Martial Arts
Different Kind
Martial
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I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he's in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.
Daniel Wu /
Action
Dramatic
Jackie
Long Time
Pain
Time Me Long
Develop
Sustainable
How Much
Jackie Chan
Realized
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I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.
Daniel Wu /
Adept
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Facets
Medicine
Awhile
Brush
Chi
Master
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In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an amazing fight. But I know that they've rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.
Daniel Wu /
Amazing
Months
Actually
Anticipating
Beforehand
Between
Blocks
Fight
Happen
Lawrence
Matrix
Rehearsed
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The two don't necessarily translate, especially if you're a prize fighter: you've fought all your life, you've fought all these fights, and now you're trying to do a movie. You see that happen a lot - a lot of professional fighters don't necessarily make it so well into the movie world.
Daniel Wu /
Movie
Prize
Translate
Life World Your
All Your Life
Fighters
Fought
Happen
Necessarily
Professional
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I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.
Daniel Wu /
Different Things
Environment
Exposed
Hong Kong
Punk
Complete
So Many Different Things
Types
Whereas
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I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.
Daniel Wu /
Architecture
Creative
Different
Environment
Office
Percent
Real
Real World
School
Series
University
Way
World
Once
Then
Around
Doing
Degree
Ended
Graduated
Other
The Real World
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What I miss from the States, I guess, is going to museums and to see small rock shows in small bars. We don't have that in Hong Kong. Unfortunately because the property market is so high, all rent is so expensive, they can't afford to have a rock music bar because those things don't make a lot of money, and they're paying a lot of rent.
Daniel Wu /
Bars
Expensive
Hong Kong
Museums
Rock Music
Afford
Bar
Unfortunately
Paying
Rent
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