Wong Kar-wai Quotes

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.

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• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Work
  • Smart

• The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Pink

• There are so many movies people make just to make money.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • People
  • Money
  • Movies

• What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Children
  • America

• I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Real
  • Character
  • Intelligent

• I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Morals

• Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Know
  • Possible

• My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Character
  • Involved
  • Betting

• I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Think

• I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

  

  Toni Braxton
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  • Kids
  • Girl

• I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

  

  Joel Grey
  • People
  • Funny
  • Powerful

• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Friends
  • Difficult
  • Him

• I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.

  

  Teddy Sears
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  • Know
  • Me

• I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Week
  • Times
  • Thrift

• I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

  

  Peter Dinklage

• I really got back to my New Orleans roots - my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I'm back there.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard

• Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.

  

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