Lucy Liu Quotes
"It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically."
- Lucy Liu
"Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Women, Fight)
"It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: People, Fear, Fun, Terror)
"Japanimation is a whole different art form."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Art)
"Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Men, Movies, Artist, Eyes, Fight, Style)
"You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Business, Work, People, Actors, Respect)
"Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Character, Language)
"I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts."
- Lucy Liu
"People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: People, Action, Language, Violence)
"Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Work, Ability, Energy)
"The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy."
- Lucy Liu
"Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself."
- Lucy Liu
"You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Time, People, Want)
"You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward."
- Lucy Liu
"Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Body, Fighting)
"I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Thought, Cartoons)
"I try to distinguish my characters from each other."
- Lucy Liu
"I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about."
- Lucy Liu
"I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Woman, Wonder)
"Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Funny, Boyfriend)
"Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Business, People, Being, Open)
"They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Thought)
"When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Work, Hurt, Weapons)
"Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught."
- Lucy Liu
(Related: Women, Fight)