Donnie Yen Quotes
I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I look formidable.
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I love India.
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It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
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One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
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I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.
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I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
