Lucy Liu

She doesn't participate.

She's too shy.

You know, she needs to really, you know, step up.

I just, I don't know who that was.

And remembering that is sort of a shocking thing to feel like, wow, I really left her behind.

When did you start to feel like that you weren't anymore?

When I left for college, that's when I really started to find my own voice and literally my own footing because I was out of the house and I was in my own room.

And I think that it was the first time I really didn't have to, you know, compare myself.

Mm-hmm.

You majored in – you didn't major in theater or acting.

Yeah.

It was something like Asian Studies.

Asian Languages and Cultures, yeah.

Did you have an intention to do something with that degree?

You know, what happened was when I went to college, it was sort of a free-for-all, and I was so excited to take, you know, all these multiple courses like ceramics and Chinese, which I had rejected so much when I was a child.

We would go to Chinese school on the weekends, and I would just absolutely despise going to Chinese school.

Wow.

Because it was this, you know, Saturday morning, and here we are, you know, we didn't, I just wanted to have a childhood.

I wanted to run around and just, you know, I guess, ride my bicycle and do all the things that everyone else was doing.

And here I was sitting in a classroom, you know, I guess, repeating these vowels and these tones.