Donnie Yen Quotes

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

Donnie Yen

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• They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bad

• Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Red

• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Men
  • Dedicated
  • Jerks

• I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Humility
  • Clever
  • Size

• They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Strong
  • Memory
  • Digital

• You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Couple
  • Internet
  • Race

• Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Time
  • Why
  • Mistake

• At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Most Beautiful

• Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Dog

• If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Problems
  • Grow
  • Thrive

• I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Work
  • Look

• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • War
  • Growing
  • Support

• I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Children
  • School

• While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Decision

• ...his mother was very old, and his father was no longer alive - hence there cannot be another Kapil Dev!

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Mother
  • Father

• It is an indication that my mental buttery is butterless and my mental larder lardless,And it consists not of 'Stop me if you've heard this one,' but of 'I know you've heard this one because I told it to you myself, but I'm going to tell it to you again regardless...'

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Stop

• To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward. Truth is not a reward.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Truth
  • Integrity
  • Honesty

• I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

  

  Chris Pine
  • World
  • Believe
  • Energy

• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Support
  • Right
  • Works

• Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Soul

• I work in the mornings and in the afternoons I go to the Latin Quarter. It is a long way from the Batignolles district to the Pantheon: Fortunately there is the Metro. It amuses me to see the people squashed together, and among them are some pretty faces which I draw in the evenings, from memory, in my sketchbook.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

  

  Donnie Yen