Quotes by Gemma Chan - Page 1

I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Support
Thinking
Underdog
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I loathe exercise. And I hate gyms. I've never had a personal trainer.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Loathe
Personal Trainer
Trainer
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It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'
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Version
Rare
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Growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn't feel like a viable option.
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Faces
Option
Viable
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Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Acting
Cameras
Different
Different Thing
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All of us have a lot of physical tics that we don't realize that we're doing subconsciously.
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Subconsciously
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I would have done it happily, but to be a Bond girl isn't everything I aim for as an actress.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Aim
Bond Girl
Bond
Happily
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I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Enjoy
Genre
Horror
Rational
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If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.
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Might
Thinking
Trouble
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My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.
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Accountant
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I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Flying
Time Good Know
Good Reason
Hard Time
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My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Academic
Expectations
Parent
People
Sensible
Expectation
Practical
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I found a place under a bridge in Goa where you could have fresh crab and beer. It was nothing complicated, but delicious.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Beer
Complicated
Delicious
Bridge
Crab
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Italy - I love the late-night culture, hanging around the square at midnight with everyone, catching up and having a drink.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Catching
Late Night
Midnight
Italy
Square
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I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Work Always World
Admired
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Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Being Scared
Believe
Scared
Supernatural
Suspenseful
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I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Constructive
Productions
Yellow
Taping
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I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Dance
Musical
Nine
Terrible
Ended
Local
Sing
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Getting stuck in a plane for four hours on the tarmac on the hottest day of summer in Italy - it was like being trapped in a boiling tin can.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Boiling
Hottest
Stuck
Summer
Tin
Trapped
Getting
Italy
Plane
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AI - not so some kind of far-off thing. It's part of our lives now, from your phone to everything you do. It makes our lives easier in a lot of ways.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Easier
Our Lives
Ai
Part
Phone
Ways
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I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.
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Anyone Else
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If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.
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Disappointment
Regret
Work Out
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I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people.
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Audition
Cancelled
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I was given a lot of homework: I had to practise ironing as a synth, practise washing up as a synth, cooking a meal as a synth. It's definitely the most prep I've had to do for a role.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Cooking
Given
Homework
Practise
Washing
Definitely
Ironing
Meal
Prep
Role
Synth
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As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.
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Conscious
Begins
Showing
Tougher
Traces
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Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.
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Automation
Facts
Unemployment
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When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That's amazing.
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Brain
Connected
Medicine
Replaced
Limb
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Save the Children is also working to improve accommodation for refugee families living outside settlements. I met a family which had been living in a substandard building without windows, doors or a toilet.
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Doors
Refugee
Accommodation
Families
Improve
Toilet
Met
Outside
Save
Settlements
Windows
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In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.
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Jobs
Creating
Past
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As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'
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Distance
High Profile
Modelling
Referred
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I know we've had AI films, but they've been quite specific in their scope. The scope of 'Humans' is a world set up where this technology is universally accepted. I haven't seen anything that's dealt with it in that multi-layered, every-layer-of-society way.
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Accepted
Humans
Scope
Technology World Way
Technology Where World
Ai
Dealt
Universally
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At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.
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Chemistry
Math
Smart
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From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities white actors do. I know that's inherently a problem in a country that produces a lot of period drama, but I have to fight so hard to get parts that don't have something to do with China.
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Asian
Descent
East Asian
Inherently
Produces
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I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Class
Granted
Humans
Provoking
Badly
Beings
Take For Granted
Treat
Work Hard
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I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.
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Jobs
Drama
Fun
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I visited a Child Friendly Space where children take part in structured play and development activities in a safe environment. These are designed to develop their cognitive ability as well as address their psychosocial needs. As I watched them sing songs and take part in games, it struck me that these kids could be anywhere in the world.
Gemma Chan / Film Actress
Cognitive
Friendly
Activities
Space World Me
Designed
Struck
Visited
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