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 Read Quote
Asian Americans haven’t had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn’t been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males. Daniel Wu Read Quote
It was ‘Shaolin Temple,’ Jet Li’s first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that. Daniel Wu Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What I miss from the States, I guess, is going to museums and to see small rock shows in small bars. We don’t have that in Hong Kong. Unfortunately because the property market is so high, all rent is so expensive, they can’t afford to have a rock music bar because those things don’t make a lot of money, and they’re paying a lot of rent. Daniel Wu Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For Cantonese – because there’s no standardized pinyin system – I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin. Daniel Wu Read Quote
