Quotes by Reggie Lee - Page 1

Be kind to each other.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Be Kind
Kind
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I don't play a regular guy at all - never.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Regular
Regular Guy
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We are all one, so let's help each other out.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Helping
Helping Each Other
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I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Nine
Desk
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Everything we will ever need, we already have within us.
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First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Firsts
Get Up
Journal
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You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Devotion
Single-Minded
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As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Hopes
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I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.
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Fancy
Real Life
Sarcastic
Life Myself Real
Life Myself Person
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As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Asian
Asian American
Pilots
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I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Filming
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Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Chinese
Filipino
Background
Mostly
Partly
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I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Muscles
Character Actor
Stretch
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For the working actor, there's nothing more stable than a network television show.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Stable
Network
Network Television
Television Show
Working Actor
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I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Philippines
Swear
Freaked
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When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Philippines
Pinocchio
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How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Filipino
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The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Acceptance
Harvard
Miserable
Possibility
Trophy
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I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Mom Me Day
Lee
Took
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There's this list on Internet Movie Database that I'm on, and it's called 'Actors with High Body Counts.' I'm always playing the bad guy.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Bad Guy
Counts
Database
List
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When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Broadway
Novelty
Time Great Long
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Definitely for myself, I find myself gravitating towards dramatic work. In terms of sitcoms, you know, I always tell my agent I don't want to be seen.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Dramatic
Work Myself Always
Agent
Dramatic Work
Sitcoms
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My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Choices
Doctor Lawyer Parents
Doctor
Professions
Quite A Bit
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I think that one of my favorite movie roles has been a film that I did with Jason Statham that was out last year called 'Safe.' I played the main bad guy in that.
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Jason
Last Year
Bad Guy
Favorite Movie
Movie Roles
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I'm a quarter Chinese and three-quarter Filipino. I don't look Filipino; I look more Chinese or Korean. It actually works in my favor: in terms of roles, it gives me a broader canvas.
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Canvas
Chinese
Filipino
Roles
Actually
Works
Broader
Favor
Gives
Quarter
Terms
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Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as 'Cinema Paradiso,' scenic landscapes, the work of Daniel Day-Lewis, the books of Joel Goldsmith, traveling, doughnuts, ice cream.
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Book
Ice Cream
Shoes
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I've played a lot of cops and a lot of bad guys, so I would like to play a regular person and just live a regular life with something interesting about it. I love the idea of television and kind of infiltrating that.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Bad Guys
Interesting
Television
Life Love Live
Played
Life Love Bad
Cops
Guys
Regular
Regular Person
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I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest. I would love to explore comedy, like a half-hour kind of single-camera comedy. I think that would kind of suit me best.
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Comedic
Love Best Me
Bend
Explore
Suit
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When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.
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Cancer
Moved
Odds
Shining
Defied
Runner
Season
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I have the biggest sweet tooth, and just recently a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Original introduced a doughnut inspired by me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon-sugar doughnut with sea salt, drizzled with honey and Nutella.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Dirty
Doughnut
Honey
Inspired
Portland
Salt
Sea
Sweet Tooth
Biggest
Original
Introduced
Shop
Recently
Tooth
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I consider myself a fortunate working actor, but I really work at it all the time. If I have a couple of weeks off, I'm taking class. You never stop. I started when I was 10 years old in Cleveland, and I've never stopped working my butt off.
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Class
Fortunate
Time Work Myself
Butt
Weeks
Consider
Work Time Myself
Never Stop
Working Actor
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I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven't stopped studying. There's an abundance of roles, and all you have to do is prove to them that you are good for the role.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Abundance
Asian
Prove
Best Good Always
Stopped
Studying
Wanting
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Kusewera, an organization that fosters orphanages in Africa and the Philippines and encourages through creative play and education. Anything and everything that supports cancer research. East West Players, the oldest and biggest Asian American theater in the U.S.
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Cancer
Organization
Player
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The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world.
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Dirty
Doughnut
Honey
Originals
Portland
Sci Fi
Sugar
Good World Me
Named
Shop
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I was made fun of in the Midwest - I was the only Asian in my graduating class of 200. Fortunately, I found my niche, and it was fine. But I wanted to be so white, you wouldn't believe it. I was like, 'I want to be white; I don't want to be this anymore.' But now I embrace it.
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Embrace
Midwest
Niche
Fortunately
Graduating
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Well, 'Grimm' is important to me for obvious reasons. I'm lucky to be able to do what I love to do for a living. I never, ever forget that. And charity work just helps me feel like I'm doing something to support my belief that we are all one. I'd like to actually do more in the future.
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Important
Lucky
Support
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There was a week where I was depressed with the rain, and people were telling me to get a light box. But I live on the 14th floor of an apartment complex, and I see the Broadway Bridge and Mount Hood, and it keeps me such company. And like true Oregonians, I don't carry an umbrella anymore.
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Broadway
Hood
Rain
Umbrella
Box
Bridge
Complex
Depressed
Floor
Mount
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My dad is an ob-gyn - he's retired now - and he wanted to come to the States to make a better life, for opportunity. My mom said that, on the plane ride here, I did not want to speak a word of English - I spoke Tagalog. And then, after the first day of school, I didn't want to speak anything but English.
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Better Life
Retired
Life Mom Dad
Life Dad Mom
Plane
Ride
Spoke
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From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community theater, did shows at Greenbrier, interned at the Cleveland Play House for a summer, took voice lessons, took ballet lessons. I did everything that Cleveland allowed me to do - everything that was available to me.
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Available
Ballet
Cleveland
Lessons
Summer
Announcement
Time Community Me
Voice Lessons
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More than anything, it's [yoga] really led to a solid belief in two fundamental things: that we have everything we will ever need, and more, within us, and we are all one. Not only has it given me great lessons in abundance and the infiniteness of our gifts, but it has led to a more conscious enjoyment of my work and my life.
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Yoga
Needs
Two
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The announcement that I was going to be an actor was made when was I was 10 years old. And that didn't go down all that well, but I had a lot of years to butter up my parents. My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Choices
Doctor Lawyer Parents
Announcement
Doctor
Butter
Professions
Quite A Bit
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