Lucy Liu

“I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.”

“They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.”

“Japanimation is a whole different art form.”

“You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.”

“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.”

“I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.”

“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.”

“Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.”

“I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.”

“Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.”