Gemma Chan Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.