Lee Byung-hun Quotes
In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ,But I could not both live and utter it.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.
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In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films.
