Top 40 Maggie Q Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights – gee, what a wonder – but also I have more to offer than that.”

— Maggie Q

2. “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

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

— Maggie Q

4. “There is nothing cooler than having lines like, ‘Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.’ Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?”

— Maggie Q

5. “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

6. “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.”

— Maggie Q

7. “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.”

— Maggie Q

8. “The student will try to defy the master. Always.”

— Maggie Q

9. “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.”

— Maggie Q

10. “I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!”

— Maggie Q

11. “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

12. “As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman’s journey.”

— Maggie Q

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

— Maggie Q

14. “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

15. “I’m not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.”

— Maggie Q

16. “Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I’m the worst.”

— Maggie Q

17. “We rarely grow when we’re happy, we grow when we hurt.”

— Maggie Q

18. “People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.”

— Maggie Q

19. “The 1970s ‘Wonder Woman’ was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it’s hard to modernize something like that.”

— Maggie Q

20. “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

21. “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

22. “I’ve gotten used to the point where I’m so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!”

— Maggie Q

23. “I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won’t do.”

— Maggie Q

24. “My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don’t make a show for men.”

— Maggie Q

25. “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.”

— Maggie Q

26. “I’m just totally into being strong. There’s something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog’s bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There’s comfort in that.”

— Maggie Q

27. “Sometimes you’re famous before you’re good.”

— Maggie Q

28. “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.”

— Maggie Q

29. “The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can’t draw too much attention to Nikita because she’s an assassin.”

— Maggie Q

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

— Maggie Q

31. “When you come to America, it’s a very serious thing. It’s not like you arrive and they say, ‘Hey, come on! Do movies!’ I can’t just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don’t, I could lose it like that.”

— Maggie Q

32. “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.”

— Maggie Q

33. “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

34. “There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.”

— Maggie Q

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

— Maggie Q

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

— Maggie Q

37. “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

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

— Maggie Q

39. “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

40. “Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they’ve ever been. They expect a lot more. I don’t think because it’s an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.”

— Maggie Q

41. “I like the physical challenge. It’s fun for me.”

— Maggie Q

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

— Maggie Q

43. “I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it’s guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it’s second nature to me.”

— Maggie Q