Ming-Na Wen Quotes

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

Ming-Na Wen

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• Ingenue

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Today

• I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • American
  • Community

• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Defeat

• We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • More
  • Cosmic
  • Earthly

• My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Public
  • Very
  • Private

• I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Know
  • Pictures
  • Historical

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Different
  • Responsibility

• I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • School
  • Think
  • Impact

• I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Good
  • School

• Laughter always forgives.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Laughter

• As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Up
  • Work
  • Culture

• I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Song

• Trust the Lord. He is the good shepherd. He knows His sheep. And His sheep know His voice.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Voice

• ...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Good
  • Mean
  • Changing

• To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress -- who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood -- and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium. It has broadened my horizons in my own mind and ultimately it is about the character for me. If I read something and I fall in love with the character, no matter what it is, I'm eager to do it. That is what happened with Gwen [on "Angel"].

  

  Alexa Davalos
  • Life
  • Mind
  • She

• For what we engage, we transform. And what we engage with our hearts is transformed forever.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Forever
  • Transform
  • Engage

• I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Art

• I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Want
  • Look
  • Stand

• There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Feelings
  • Young
  • Youth

• I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

  

  Ming-Na Wen
  • Actress
  • Transform
  • Ingenue