Ang Lee Quotes

So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.

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• When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • First
  • Order
  • Trauma

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Day

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • American
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood

• We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Children
  • Society
  • Idea

• When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Same

• Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Small
  • Noise

• If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • America
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Two

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Better
  • Looking

• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Night
  • Year

• I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Community

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Japanese

• I just sing. You have to use it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Just
  • Sing

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • Men
  • Trying

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Tree
  • Down

• I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Serious
  • Hands
  • Smile

• Acting was just something that came really naturally to me, and it was just something that I knew how to do.

  

  Freya Tingley

• So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie