Andrew Lau Quotes

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

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• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Health
  • Happiness

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thoughts
  • Products
  • Whatever

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Child
  • Lot

• It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Belief
  • Will
  • Taste

• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Industry
  • Download

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • First
  • Survive

• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Country
  • Family
  • High

• Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Bad
  • My Own
  • Posture

• I'm known for my handwritten notes.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Known
  • Notes

• Vampires are super sexy.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Sexy
  • Vampires
  • Super

• When you look at people, you should look at more than what you see on the surface; you should try to find a soul.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Soul
  • Look

• I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Victory
  • Gods
  • Fault

• For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Faith
  • Lost

• History will judge societies and governments - and their institutions - not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

  

  Cesar Chavez
  • History
  • Powerful
  • Judge

• I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

  

  Craig Thompson

• Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... because the strain on the muscles is such that the circulation of the blood is retarded. Standing even for a short time proves exhausting compared with walking and running though it be for a long time ... Nature delights and is restored by alternating and varied actions.

  

  Bernardino Ramazzini
  • Work
  • Blood
  • Actions

• Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

  

  Andrew Lau