Top 22 Daniel Wu Quotes

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If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before,

If you’re down to 6% body fat, which I’ve done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you’re pretty much done, and then you’re useless.
Daniel Wu
I miss the Bay Area – the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you’re going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you’re young.
Daniel Wu
I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.
Daniel Wu
In ‘The Matrix,’ you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It’s an amazing fight. But I know that they’ve rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.
Daniel Wu
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing – or, if we’re doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
Daniel Wu
The two don’t necessarily translate, especially if you’re a prize fighter: you’ve fought all your life, you’ve fought all these fights, and now you’re trying to do a movie. You see that happen a lot – a lot of professional fighters don’t necessarily make it so well into the movie world.
Daniel Wu
We’ll see what I do after ‘Badlands’ to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts.
Daniel Wu
I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it’s a complete different environment – you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.
Daniel Wu
It’s not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
Daniel Wu
When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies – in San Francisco, we had ‘Kung Fu Theater’ on TV on Saturdays, and they’d air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that.
Daniel Wu
To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.
Daniel Wu
I’ve been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
Daniel Wu
I’ve built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody’s Chinese in the films.
Daniel Wu
I really dislike the fact that Asian males are constantly emasculated, whether it’s American TV or films. You see it all the time, and it’s so weird that they don’t see sexuality in Asian men.
Daniel Wu
For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype – ‘Sixteen Candles,’ the Long Duk Dong character.
Daniel Wu
I worked with Jackie Chan for a long time, and seeing how much pain he’s in, I realized that that might not be a sustainable career for me. So I started to develop my career as a dramatic actor rather than as an action actor.
Daniel Wu
What we did with ‘Tai Chi Zero’ and ‘Tai Chi Hero’ was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.
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Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn’t just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.
Daniel Wu
I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.
Daniel Wu
For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.
Daniel Wu
I wanted to try every style available to me – large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can’t sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.
Daniel Wu
I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.
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