Alan Mak Quotes

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

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• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Good
  • Body
  • Doing

• My normal life is like being on holiday.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Life
  • Holiday
  • Normal

• If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Stop
  • Positive

• Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Music
  • Business
  • Woman

• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Music
  • Band
  • Making

• I like challenges. I think that's important.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Important
  • Think
  • Challenges

• In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Know
  • Wave
  • Can

• Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Nothing

• When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide… If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

  

  David Harewood

• I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • People

• I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

  

  Bob Graham

• In Filey, you eat early to prepare for the highlight of the evening: social intercourse of a kind one thought relegated to Stanley Holloway monologues.

  

  David Hewson

• I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Theatre

• The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • People

• I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• Hero Ride gives everyone the opportunity to get involved with an incredible charity, and the beauty of this challenge is that you can set the boundaries: whether you can manage 10 miles or 100 miles on the ride to Blackheath, Hero Ride is for everyone.

  

  Peta Todd
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge
  • Hero

• If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Crazy
  • Insane

• I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

  

  Alan Mak