Daily Inspiration Quote by Kelly Hu

Kelly Hu’s line lands with a wink: it’s “of course” doing the heavy lifting, signaling that the desire to be Wonder Woman isn’t some niche confession but a culturally legible fantasy - especially for anyone raised on comic-book iconography and TV reruns. By framing the aspiration through the “greatest costume,” Hu keeps it light and fan-forward, but the subtext is sharper. Superhero worship often gets treated as a boyhood rite; Hu casually re-centers it as a girlhood (and women’s) pleasure, rooted not in brute power but in style, presentation, and the thrill of being seen.

The word “costume” is doing double duty. In superhero language, it’s armor and identity, a visual shorthand for authority. In an actor’s mouth, it’s also craft: the external skin that lets you step into a role and claim a different kind of power. Hu isn’t delivering a manifesto; she’s pointing to how pop culture teaches us what power should look like. Wonder Woman’s outfit has always been controversial - celebrated as iconic, critiqued as pin-up. Hu’s admiration threads that needle by focusing on the fantasy’s surface while quietly acknowledging what surfaces do: they invite desire, scrutiny, and projection.

There’s also an unspoken casting politics here. For an Asian American actress who’s spent a career navigating roles that can flatten identity, Wonder Woman represents a clean, expansive archetype - not the sidekick, not the exoticized villain, but the center of the frame. The costume, in that sense, isn’t just cute. It’s permission.