Quotes from Lucy Liu


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You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.


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.


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.


They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.


Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.


Japanimation is a whole different art form.


If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.


I try to distinguish my characters from each other.


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.


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.


I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.


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.


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.


It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.


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.


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.


Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.


I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.


I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.


I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.