Home / Authors / Lucy Liu Books

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu Books

Actress

Lucy Liu, born on December 2, 1968, is an accomplished American actress known for her remarkable performances in both film and television. She rose to fame with her role in the 'Matrix' series and 'The Big Boss', showcasing her versatility and talent. Liu's acting career began in her childhood, with appearances in various television shows and movies. She gained international recognition for her role in 'The Matrix' and has continued to build a successful career in films such as 'The Big Boss'.

No books found for this author.

Related Quotes

“It's great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You're doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs.”

Running Fun Design Involved Incredibles Productions Lots Of Money

Author:Lucy Liu

“I think diversity is very key to anybody's resume, and also for your mental well-being.”

Thinking Wells Keys Diversity Well Being Resumes

Author:Lucy Liu

“You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Wells Faces Fall Challenges Comedy One Thing Terrible Your Face Challenge Yourself Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Lucy Liu

“It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.”

People Thinking World Important Able Speak Language Grew Grew Up Absolutes Important Things Privilege

Author:Lucy Liu

“I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's very exciting and a really good way to collide all the things that you've known and experienced in the business and put them all into one.”

Thinking Way Seems Natural Known Exciting Progression Good Way Collide

Author:Lucy Liu

“The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.”

Thinking Character Television Perception Predictability

Author:Lucy Liu

“The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.”

Ends Film Wonderful Middle Amount Concrete Wonderful Things Beginning Middle And End

Author:Lucy Liu

“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.”

Ifs Country Hard Age Given Difficult Amount Chinese Transition New Things Back And Forth Kindergarten Pivotal Learning New Learning New Things

Author:Lucy Liu

“When you have something that close to you, you want to make sure that you're aware of it.”

Author:Lucy Liu

“A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.”

People Giving Children Dies Birth Sick Aids Hiv Giving Birth

Author:Lucy Liu

“I generally won't do a role unless I feel like it's in my system somewhere, even if it's just a molecule of it. Like I just felt like I knew it and if I talked about it or discussed it or tried to rehearse it that it would take away the energy from that scene so I went in there and just did it.”

Ifs Feels Energy Felt Roles Scene Molecules

Author:Lucy Liu

“When I was shooting a movie in Montreal, it was freezing. If you take a little bit of Aquaphor and dab it on your face, it keeps your skin looking fresh. I dubbed it Aqua For Everything.”

Ifs Littles Faces Bits Little Bit Skins Shooting Your Face Freezing Montreal Aqua Dabs

Author:Lucy Liu

“Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.”

Needs Feelings Joy Communication Revealing Request Nonviolent Communication

Author:Lucy Liu

“Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.”

Feels Years Body Changed Ten Muscles Pilates

Author:Lucy Liu

“There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.”

Want Sacrifice My Family Who I Am Related Judged My Sister

Author:Lucy Liu

“Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.”

Dating Smell Boyfriend Vintage Funny Boyfriend

Author:Lucy Liu

“I love children. I work with UNICEF and one of the reasons I love that is because they deal specifically with children. For me I think it's just really important to always embrace that side of you.”

Thinking Children Important Reason Sides Deals Embrace Children Love Unicef

Author:Lucy Liu

“I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.”

Knows Needs Trying Believe Heart I Believe Five Great Love

Author:Lucy Liu

“I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add raceto it, and it became, 'Well, she's too Asian', or, ‘She's too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It's a very strange place to be. You're not Asian enough and then you're not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.”

People Wells Kind Enough Girl Wish Emotion Comedy Strange Beats Add Categories Be You Frustrating Asian Get Real Julia Strange Places

Author: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.”

People Want Looks One Thing Becoming Trapped Want To See You

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Thinking Appreciate Who You Are Hopefully Superhero

Author:Lucy Liu

“I try to distinguish my characters from each other.”

Trying Character

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Ifs Cartoon Competing

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Character Language Costumes

Author:Lucy Liu

“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.”

People Knows Turns Actors Nice Like You Working It Acknowledgment Really Like You

Author:Lucy Liu

“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.”

People Thinking Running Fun Streets Terror Bites Running Away

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Author: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.”

Feels Kind Fighting Watches Excited Empowering Empowered

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Author:Lucy Liu

“Japanimation is a whole different art form.”

Art Different Whole Form

Author:Lucy Liu

“I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they're like, Oh, well, so-and-so was straight and then she was gay, and now she's straight again, you know? But it's like, how many times do I have to kiss a woman before I'm gay? Everybody wants to label people. Sometimes you just fall in love with somebody, and you're really not thinking about what gender or whatever they happen to be. It think that if I happen to fall in love with a woman, everyone's going to make a big deal out of it. But if I happen to fall in love with a man, nobody cares.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Want Wells Sometimes Bigs Happens Care Fall Deals Gay Kissing Falling In Love Gender Impression Labels Big Deal Oh Well Nobody Cares Wrong Impression

Author:Lucy Liu

“You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.”

Looks Looking Back Looking Forward

Author: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”

People Use Action Film Language Violence Emotional Beats Location Quentin

Author:Lucy Liu

“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”

Kind Hands Hurt Weapons Chains Combat

Author:Lucy Liu

“Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.”

Play Girl Silly Likes Samurai Caucasian Kill Bill

Author:Lucy Liu

“Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.”

Years Body Changed Ten Pilates

Author:Lucy Liu

“I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.”

Ifs Enjoy Taught Grew Grew Up Busy Granted Queens Height Freak Too Busy No Money

Author:Lucy Liu

“Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.”

People Art Form Easy Deals Focus Discipline Admire Things To Do Martial Arts Dedication Easy Things

Author:Lucy Liu

“Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day.”

Hot Hills Pushing Hot Days Jello

Author:Lucy Liu

“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.”

Way Kind Littles Different Whole Bits Little Bit Sexy Different Ways Necks Japan Kimonos

Author:Lucy Liu

“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.”

Men Different Eye Artist Fighting Style Whips Different Styles

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Ifs Knows Wonder Incredibles Convincing Wonder Woman Incredible Hulk

Author:Lucy Liu

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

Author:Lucy Liu

About the Author

Born: December 2, 1968
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 44

Related Topics

Ifs People Thinking Knows Want Kind Wells Character Deals Different

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Similar Authors

Kristen StewartBrowse related quotes
Clint EastwoodBrowse related quotes
Sylvester StalloneBrowse related quotes
Angelina JolieBrowse related quotes
Taylor SwiftBrowse related quotes
Miley CyrusBrowse related quotes
Amy PoehlerBrowse related quotes
Robert GreeneBrowse related quotes
Robert PattinsonBrowse related quotes
David LevithanBrowse related quotes