Constance Wu Quotes

#1. The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.

Grenville Kleiser

#2. Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Constance Wu

#3. The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Constance Wu

#5. You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.

Constance Wu

#6. Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

Pope Francis

#7. I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Constance Wu

#8. Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'

Constance Wu

#9. When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.

Constance Wu

#10. People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Constance Wu

#11. Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Constance Wu

#12. People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.

Constance Wu

#13. Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Burton Richter

#14. I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

Constance Wu

#15. Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

Leon Golub

#16. True love takes time to find, but once it's found, the rest is eternal.

Anthony Liccione

#17. I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life ... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know ... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Constance Wu

#18. All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

Constance Wu

#19. My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.

Constance Wu

#20. yourself lucky." He smiled. I grabbed some clean

John Green

#21. Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he'll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won't stop til you're his.

Mandy Hale

#22. I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Constance Wu

#23. I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Constance Wu

#24. If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

Constance Wu

#25. If you don't leave my room this instant," she heard herself say, "I'll make a scene." "Marks, there is nothing in the world I would enjoy more than watching you make a scene. In fact, I'll help you. How shall we start?"
- Catherine & Leo

Lisa Kleypas

#26. Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Alexandre Dumas

#27. It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Constance Wu

#28. I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be ... ' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.

Constance Wu

#29. I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

Raina Telgemeier

#30. Primarily, that means learning to recognize thoughts as thoughts - as transient appearances in consciousness - and to no longer be distracted by them, if only for short periods of time.

Sam Harris

#31. It's so easy for someone else to say, 'Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.' Why not say it? It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't mean anything. No one will hold you to it if you're wrong.

Rainbow Rowell

#32. The world's twenty-seven richest people own more wealth than the poorest five billion, and people accept that as normal.

David Mitchell