Donnie Yen Quotes
When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'
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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
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When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
