Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Gemma Chan

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Gemma Chan is an English actress. Born and raised in London, Chan attended the Newstead Wood School for Girls and studied law at Worcester College, Oxford before choosing to pursue a career in acting instead, enrolling at the Drama Centre London. Chan was subsequently cast in various supporting roles on television, including Doctor Who, Sherlock, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Fresh Meat, Bedlam and True Love. She also appeared in independent films Exam (2009), Submarine (2010) and Belles Familles (2015). Chan performed in the British premiere of Yellow Face at The Park Theatre and Our Ajax at the Southwark Playhouse.

English - Actress | Born: November 29, 1982

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I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.

Gemma Chan

All of us have a lot of physical tics that we don't realize that we're doing subconsciously.

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I would have done it happily, but to be a Bond girl isn't everything I aim for as an actress.

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I've heard about productions where it still happens: yellow face, taping up the eyes. It's hard to talk about it in a constructive way.

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I found a place under a bridge in Goa where you could have fresh crab and beer. It was nothing complicated, but delicious.

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I know we've had AI films, but they've been quite specific in their scope. The scope of 'Humans' is a world set up where this technology is universally accepted. I haven't seen anything that's dealt with it in that multi-layered, every-layer-of-society way.

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When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That's amazing.

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As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'

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I visited a Child Friendly Space where children take part in structured play and development activities in a safe environment. These are designed to develop their cognitive ability as well as address their psychosocial needs. As I watched them sing songs and take part in games, it struck me that these kids could be anywhere in the world.

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Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

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I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.

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Getting stuck in a plane for four hours on the tarmac on the hottest day of summer in Italy - it was like being trapped in a boiling tin can.

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I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

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I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

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Growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn't feel like a viable option.

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I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

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I do feel a responsibility to try and raise awareness and to help tell the stories of those who may not otherwise have a voice.

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My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

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As a human, you don't have to be too conscious of your movement. I think it's tougher playing a robot than a human, and even tougher playing a robot who begins showing traces of being a human.

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Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

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AI - not so some kind of far-off thing. It's part of our lives now, from your phone to everything you do. It makes our lives easier in a lot of ways.

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Save the Children is also working to improve accommodation for refugee families living outside settlements. I met a family which had been living in a substandard building without windows, doors or a toilet.

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I loathe exercise. And I hate gyms. I've never had a personal trainer.

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I hate the idea that people should listen to what actors have to say on certain issues more than anyone else. Actors have no more right to be heard than anyone.

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From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities white actors do. I know that's inherently a problem in a country that produces a lot of period drama, but I have to fight so hard to get parts that don't have something to do with China.

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Italy - I love the late-night culture, hanging around the square at midnight with everyone, catching up and having a drink.

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It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'

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I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people.

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My parents thought they were getting an accountant and a lawyer. Instead, they ended up with a PR and an actress.

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I was given a lot of homework: I had to practise ironing as a synth, practise washing up as a synth, cooking a meal as a synth. It's definitely the most prep I've had to do for a role.

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I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.

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If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

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If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.

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I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.

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In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.

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At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.

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Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what we're facing in the future because of increasing automation.

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Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Gemma Chan

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