Jackie Chan Quotes

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Man
  • Myself

• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

• I've got nothing very original to say myself.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Myself
  • Nothing
  • Say

• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • School
  • Done
  • Studying

• The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Money
  • Night
  • Day

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Day
  • See
  • Everyday

• Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Day
  • First
  • Before

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Me
  • California

• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Forever

• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Decide

• There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • School
  • Why
  • Year

• By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Modeling

• When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

  

  Young Thug
  • School
  • Small
  • Dad

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Given
  • Credit

• The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • English

• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Think

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Father
  • Smart

• I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • School
  • Day
  • Myself