KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Constance Wu Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Constance Wu

Showing 21-30 of 44 Quotes by Constance Wu

My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.

~Constance Wu

Topics: About Animal Animals Assigned Boy Children Community Dogs Family Featured Got Grew Like Novels Older Pretty Problems School Up Virginia Were Which White You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


My first Asian role model was Michelle Kwan. Her beauty comes from within. She's also really beautiful on the outside. But when I first saw her ice-skate, her performance was so moving and beautiful that she just glowed.

~Constance Wu

Topics: Also Asian Beautiful Beauty First Her Just Michelle Model Moving Outside Performance Really Role Role Model Saw She Within

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.

~Constance Wu

Topics: Actor Being Hard Itself Just Just Do It Own Sake You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If the expression of and advocating for your values makes you lose a job or a person, then that person/job sorta just... wasn't your heart's tribe.

~Constance Wu

Topics: Advocating Expression Heart Job Just Lose Makes Person Then Tribe Values You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If you watch any show that stars white people, white people aren't coming up to them like, 'Thank you for showing my face on the big screen.' Because they see their faces in popular culture all the time.

~Constance Wu

Topics: Any Because Big Big Screen Coming Culture Face Faces Like People Popular Popular Culture Screen See Show Showing Stars Thank Thank You Them Time Up Watch White You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Back Car Cent Did Education Furniture Give Give Me Had Lot Me My Own Own Parents Pay

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Actor Away Bad Because Funny Get Just Like Likeable Manipulative Me Needy See Some Still Them Thing Think Though Trying Want World Worst Worst Thing You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Capable Deepest Fact Funny Good Heart Hysterical Make Making Then True Very Will Writing You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Absolute Accent Aspire British Canadian Craft Honor Just Like Me Play Privilege Taiwanese Things Trained Very Whether Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Actress African African American American Auditioning Because Box Check Ethnic Girl Indian Latina Lead Like Need Off Our Slot Third White Will

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: March 22nd, 1982

Links

Find Constance Wu on Amazon

Related Authors

Bette Davis
Marlene Dietrich
Judy Garland
Helen Hayes
Katharine Hepburn
Angelina Jolie
Marilyn Monroe
Mae West

Popular Authors

James A. Baldwin Buddha Gilbert K. Chesterton Robert Kennedy Sophia Loren Plato Joan Rivers John Wooden

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Age Diet Education Graduation Imagination Independence Memorial Day New Year's