Top 37 Reggie Lee Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. We are all one, so let's help each other out.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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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#16. How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.
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#17. 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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#18. For the working actor, there's nothing more stable than a network television show.
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#19. First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.
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#20. As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.
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#21. I don't play a regular guy at all - never.
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#22. I speak Cantonese, and I speak Tagalog.
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#23. 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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#24. You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.
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#25. When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.
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#26. I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.
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#30. I'm the type of actor that, if I'm not filming something, I'm in class.
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#31. The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.
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#32. 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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#33. As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.
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#34. 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.
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#35. Everything we will ever need, we already have within us.
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#36. I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!
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#37. 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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