Shum Quotes & Sayings

I cannot go to sleep without reading. — Julianne Hough

When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling. — Harry Shum Jr.

I'm actually really shy. — Harry Shum Jr.

I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time. — Harry Shum Jr.

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet. — Habeeb Akande

I started working when I was 9 or 10. — Harry Shum Jr.

And we neglect the glorious gospel when we fail to recognize his preeminence. How frequently we forget that everything is for him and about him. We forget that he is to be first, in our honor and in our worship. Whenever the gospel slips from our conscious thought, our religion becomes all about our performance, and then we think everything that happens or will ever happen isa bout us. When I forget the incarnation, sinless life, death, resurrection, and ascension, I quickly believe that I'm supposed to be the unrivaled supreme, and matchless one. It's at this point that I'm particularly in need of an intravenous dose of gospel truth. He is preeminent. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her. — Harry Shum Jr.

I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it. — Harry Shum Jr.

I would be in a room full of people being loud and running around, and I'd be in the corner just playing with the wall. So I was very, very quiet, but when I really got into the arts, that opened me up. — Harry Shum Jr.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance. — Paul Goodman

Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool. — Harry Shum Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other. — Harry Shum Jr.

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things. — Harry Shum Jr.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school. — Harry Shum Jr.

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint. — Ryan Reynolds

If I'm home alone, I just dance ... it's my own little secret. — Harry Shum Jr.

I think we should start a movement, and everyone should just start wearing metal pants to the airport. — Ed Robertson

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts. — Harry Shum Jr.

Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them. — Winston Graham

I wasn't the guy who got straight As. I got As and Bs and a couple Cs. — Harry Shum Jr.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance. — Harry Shum Jr.

You'll survive, mu Tara. We'll make sure of it. (Nykyrian)
You can't guarantee that. You said it yourself. Even you're living on borrowed time, waiting for one of them to kill you. (Kiara)
And you said I was scaring her? Damn, bud. You're socially awkward to the extreme. (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Everyone has different talents, different styles and talents. — Harry Shum Jr.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.' — Harry Shum Jr.

When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me. — Harry Shum Jr.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle. — Harry Shum Jr.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao. — Lou Reed

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me. — Harry Shum Jr.

I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight. — Harry Shum Jr.

America today is in danger of drifting from its best traditions. We have allowed false prophets of selfishness to obscure our vision. We have grown numb to a creeping cynicism about progress and public life. We crave human connection yet hide behind walls. We worship the money chase yet decry the toll it exacts on us. We allow the market to dominate our lives, relationships, yearnings and aspirations. We indulge in nostalgia and irony and addictive entertainment, then purge from our hearts any true idealism or passion, any notion that being American should mean something more than "everyday low prices" or "every man for himself." In the midst of this dislocation and disorientation, so many Americans today yearn for higher purpose, for calling
for some assurance that life matters. We wish to believe there is more to our days than is revealed on our screens. Make no mistake: this is a spiritual crisis. — Eric Liu

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions. — Andy Andrews

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure. — Steve Martin

The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all. — Harry Shum Jr.

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like. — Harry Shum Jr.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature. — Harry Shum Jr.

I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now. — Harry Shum Jr.

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum. — Harry Shum Jr.

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered. — Alfred North Whitehead

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh. — Harry Shum Jr.

In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics. — Billy Graham

I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring. — Harry Shum Jr.