Ang Lee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
-
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
-
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
-
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
-
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
-
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
-
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
-
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
-
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
-
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
-
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
-
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
-
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
-
I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
-
I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
-
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
-
A playmaker, he makes that play. . . . If you are (screwing around) on one play, that might have been your play to make.
-
The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious-it makes little or no difference.
-
The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.
-
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
-
Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.
-
I'm aware of what's missing from my life.
