Zhang Ziyi Quotes
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
