Jamie Chung Quotes

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

No other fighter's doing what I'm doing, no other fighter is daring to do what I'm doing.

You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

I'm always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts.

I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.

I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'

The most successful people are so original.

I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.

Different is better. I get more jobs being different.

I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.

I like people who push the envelope.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

I absolutely loved working with Tim Burton because he is just a creative, outside of the box thinker. How he does things is fantastic. It is different - weird different - and he does things that are groundbreaking. They are courageous to do and once you do them you are like, 'Wow! That really does work!'

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.

The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.

Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.

Without sounding patronizing, it does seem that our family is different from other people. We risk more.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

I've always been the kid to want to do anything and everything.

I just want to continue to do polar opposite type of work. I just want to continue to do things that are unexpected and dynamic, with good stories behind them.

The bravery and pioneering of early Hollywood was absolutely incredible.