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Gemma Chan Quotes

From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities white actors do. I know that's inherently a problem in a country that produces a lot of period drama, but I have to fight so hard to get parts that don't have something to do with China.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: November 29, 1982

Topics

Experience Fight Opportunities Drama

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Strength Talent People World Enough

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

Focus People Think Move On Want Try

The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to playing cowboys is my father, Lloyd Bridges. When I was a little kid, I loved to dress up like a cowboy - put on the boots, hat, and walk around. He was in a lot of westerns, and my dad loved to ride.

Father Walk Ride Dress Hat Mind

It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid's perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take.

Father Time Perspective Day School

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

Robert Delaunay

Myself Sun Believe Color Want Way

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Dance Arts Martial Arts Before

'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.

Work Time Moment Best Happy People

Anything new is a sort of adventure - as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like unusual foods, and I hated new clothes or having my hair cut.

Adventure Child Hair Think Clothes

I think Selena Gomez is extremely talented.

Think I Think Talented Extremely

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

Music Myself Happy Me Doing Go

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Art Artist Copy Be Original Original

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

Teacher School I Am Space NASA Go

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