A biography for Simu Liuhasn’t been written yet.
“It does feel like we get to just carte blanche create a superhero origin story for 2021, for this day and age, that is told through a distinctly Asian American lens.”
“Hawkeye is the best 'Avenger' because he does not rely on superpowers or extraordinary abilities.”
“Yeah, I went to business school and I actually worked as an accountant for about eight months. It's not what I wanted, but it was definitely a move to appease the parents.”
“I'd just woken up from a nap, it was around 6:30 in the evening. I was eating some shrimp crackers at my desk. Then I get a call from an unknown number in Burbank, California and my heart immediately skips a beat because I know the Disney home office is in Burbank.”
“You know, 'Hunt for the Wilderpeople' was a great movie that I thoroughly enjoyed.”
“I grew up loving Jackie Chan and Jet Li and certainly Bruce Lee. But as I got older, I started to question: Is that all we have?”
“Things like 'following your passion' and 'finding your creative outlets' didn't mean anything to me because I didn't have that area of my brain.”
“I would do background and extra stuff, I would do student films, I just found every opportunity I could to be on set, and after awhile I accumulated enough work to get an agent.”
“I got into this business when I was 22 years old, and I didn't have a woke bone in my body. And all I wanted to do was be on screen and for people to pay attention to me, but we evolve and our cause evolves and the conversations today are certainly very different.”
“I loved Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, but I was always keenly aware that people who looked like me could not look like that.”
“I've seen cashiers, servers, transit operators, bank tellers and customs officers speak much too quickly on purpose as if it pained them to have to spend another second of their lives conversing with my parents.”
“My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.”
“Not every director can always rise to the challenge of all of a sudden having $200 million thrown at them.”
“I'm somebody who feels caught between two worlds a lot of the time.”
“What I'm trying to say is, I'm really happy I'm not a doctor. So, take that mom and dad.”
“A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.”
“When I was 16 years old, I thought that backflips were like the coolest thing. So I spent like months and months of my life like, literally flipping onto my head.”
“I remember doing 5th grade math when I was like seven years old. My parents just constantly pushed me, in a good way, to always demand excellence in everything that I did.”
“I feel like it's a bit of a misconception that all actors have to be expert martial artists if they're Asian.”
“I auditioned for 'Crazy Rich Asians' four times and it was very, very hard for me to not get it, because it was like, these 'Crazy Rich Asians' people were the cool kids and I was the one being left out.”