Quotes from Maggie Q

You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

Here's my goal: I want to make a seriously dark show, and not on a network that has ever done that.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

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

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

My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

With stunt guys, you can punch them in the face because it's, you know, just part of work. You feel bad about that but not as bad as if you punch another actor.

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.