Latest Maggie Q Quotes from Interviews

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• J.J. Abrams is a director with no ego. He is a director who has a very consistent attitude when he's at work. He's funny, he's brilliant, he's a combination of all these really great things. J.J. is the kind of person who sees the bigger picture before anybody else does. It sounds simple but not all directors do that.

  Maggie Q

  Attitude, Simple, Ego

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Our life on earth cannot sustain without healthy oceans - and because of that, the beings who inhabit and allow that eco system to work need our help. Let's start with our wonderment, and go from there. Allow that, and it becomes easy.

  Maggie Q

  Ocean, Healthy, Needs

• I know young people are all going to have different passions, but I would say that if you happen to have a heart for animals, never forget that without your voice, there is no channel for them.

  Maggie Q

  Heart, Passion, Animal

• We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

  Maggie Q

  Position, Felt, Our Lives

• When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

  Maggie Q

  Hurt, Pain, Suffering

  "Divergent Star Maggie Q on Earthlings, Best Friends Animal Society, and No Kill". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

• What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

  Maggie Q

  Hurt, Children, Real

  "Divergent Star Maggie Q on Earthlings, Best Friends Animal Society, and No Kill". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

  Maggie Q

  Want, Film, Love Films

  Source: collider.com

• Obviously, you have to be lucky enough for people to want you to be in films, but that is the plan, definitely.

  Maggie Q

  People, Lucky, Want

  Source: collider.com

• I went back to China and did a movie in Mandarin, and I don't speak Mandarin, so I learned it phonetically. Now, when I'm on set and somebody gives me English lines, I'm like, "Are you kidding? What's happening? This is amazing!"

  Maggie Q

  Giving, Lines, Speak

  Source: collider.com

• I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made.

  Maggie Q

  Mistake, School, Eight

  Source: collider.com

• I'd left Hawaii twice in my life, so I'd been on an island my whole life. I had no clue. I didn't know how to live in a city.

  Maggie Q

  Islands, Cities, Hawaii

  Source: collider.com

• I've gotten to that point where I'm so used to being sweaty, wearing pants, and sitting like a guy in boots. When I'm dressed up and people are touching me up and doing the whole thing, I'm less comfortable with that.

  Maggie Q

  People, Guy, Touching

  Source: collider.com

• I like to wear less make-up and be tougher. The primp stuff is exciting for people, but it's less exciting for me. It's definitely fun, but I like low maintenance.

  Maggie Q

  Fun, People, Maintenance

  Source: collider.com

• You're not going to see me in a bikini again, that's for sure. I was horrified to wear that. I was mortified. I was like, "Danny, can you put me in a one-piece?," and he gave me that red bikini. I was like, "That's not a one-piece. That's a two-piece with a string."

  Maggie Q

  Two, Pieces, Red

  Source: collider.com

• I like the physical challenge. It's fun for me.

  Maggie Q

  Fun, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

• When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.

  Maggie Q

  Asia, Tvs, Film

  Source: collider.com

• I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.

  Maggie Q

  People, Teeth, Asian

  Source: collider.com

• Every action project you take, whether it be a movie or TV series, is always different and a lot of people don't really know how big a difference it is. It's a different style of fighting, a different tempo and all of that.

  Maggie Q

  Fighting, Differences, People

  Source: collider.com

• People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

  Maggie Q

  People, Female, World

  Source: collider.com