Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better. — Lucy Liu

I try to distinguish my characters from each other. — Lucy Liu

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. — Lucy Liu

Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords. — Lucy Liu

It’s like kill or be killed, that’s my thing basically. — Lucy Liu

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk–but I don’t know if I’d be a very convincing hulk. — Lucy Liu

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. — Lucy Liu

Japanimation is a whole different art form. — Lucy Liu

I’ve never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me. — Lucy Liu

I think diversity is very key to anybody’s resume, and also for your mental well–being. — Lucy Liu

I’ve definitely become much more aware of physical stunts. — Lucy Liu

If you see the Sopranos, you’re not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. — Lucy Liu

Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other’s service. — Lucy Liu

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. — Lucy Liu

It’s great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You’re doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs. — Lucy Liu

A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don’t survive after a time because they’ve been sick too. — Lucy Liu

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. — Lucy Liu

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. — Lucy Liu

Producing is like pushing jello up a hill on a hot day. — Lucy Liu

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. — Lucy Liu

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it’s not an easy thing to do. — Lucy Liu

You can’t look back; you have to keep looking forward. — Lucy Liu

Nobody really tells me what’s going on, and I find out via the trades myself. — Lucy Liu

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about. — Lucy Liu

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it. — Lucy Liu

I try to believe like I believed when I was five…when your heart tells you everything you need to know. — Lucy Liu

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately. — Lucy Liu

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. — Lucy Liu