Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.
I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.
I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.
I try to distinguish my characters from each other.
I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.
I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.
If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
In Japan, there's a whole ceremony when you fight. She takes off her shoes. It's such a quiet moment, and then she bows.
It's just the way of this business-you just get damaged. I don't think that anyone has gotten into a fight and not gotten hurt.
It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.
It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.
Japanimation is a whole different art form.
Like Shanghai Noon, if you look back at the movie, I only had one kick in the whole movie, in the end. I asked for the kick!
Men like to see two women fighting. Men see women as a different entity altogether.
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
My freckles are always there. I think the lighting blows it out. If we had to cover up the freckles, I'd be forever with a thick thing of makeup.
Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.
Once I put the kimono on it was a whole different ball game because it would get twisted up, the sleeves are really long.
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
People don't think the public is smart enough to understand that this is America and that there's all kinds of people out there.
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.
The Yakuza speak in a very different way. Their tone is more monotone than it is like when you're a regular Japanese person.
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
When we first saw The Matrix, a lot of people had never seen that kind of martial arts and the wire work before.
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.
You have to hope that you don't have to wear a mask and you don't have to put prosthetics on your face to make yourself look believable.
You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.
You have to slowly include the audience and make sure your work is being appreciated.
You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
Lucy has co-starred in the movie Ban wo zong heng
She has co-starred in the movie Bang (1995) as .... The Hooker
she has co-starred in the movie Flypaper (1997) as .... Dot
Lucy Liu has co-starred in the Crime / Thriller City of Industry (1997) as Cathi Rose
Lucy Liu has co-starred in the movie Love Kills (1998) as Kashi. This movie was directed by Mario Van Peebles which he also starred in.
Lucy Liu had a small part in the movie True Crime (1999) as the Toy Shop Girl. This movie starred Clint Eastwood.
She has co-starred in the Comedy / Sci-Fi movie The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999) as The Female's Friend (Lydia)
She has co-starred in the movie Shanghai Noon (2000) as Princess Pei Pei. This movie starred Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson.
She has co-starred in the movie Hotel (2001) as Kawika
Lucy Liu has starred in the movie Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) as Agent Sever. This movie also starred Antonio Banderas.
Lucy Liu has co-starred in the movie Chicago as Kitty Baxter
Lucy Liu has starred in the movie Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) as O-Ren Ishii
miss Liu has co-starred in the movie 3 Needles (2005) as Jin Ping
Lucy Liu is co-starring in the movie Lucky Number Slevin (2006) as Lindsey
Lucy Liu is starring in the movie Rise (2006) (post-production) as Sadie Blake
Lucy Liu is in in negotiations to play in the movie Watching the Detectives (2006) (pre-production) (in negotiations)
Lucy Liu is starring in the movie Charlie Chan (2007) (announced)
She graduated Stuyvesant High School the same year as Yelba Osorio and Zorikh Lequidre.
She is mentioned in Outkast's hit Hey Ya.
She announced that she plans on marrying Zach Helm, her boyfriend of one year in April 2004.
Lucy is in the Intel Inside Centrino ads.
Lucy was the first Asian-American female to host Saturday Night Live, December 16th, 2000.
In the 2004 MTV Movie Awards, She won the Best Villian award for her role in Kill Bill
Lucy is best friends with co-stars Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz, from Charlies Angels.
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