Chow Yun-Fat Quotes
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
Quotes to Explore
-
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
-
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
-
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-
Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
-
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
-
I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
-
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
-
We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
-
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
-
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
-
See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
-
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
-
We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.
-
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
-
I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
-
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
-
A secret is powerful when it is empty.
-
As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
-
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
-
My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
-
You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
-
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
-
I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.
-
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
