Ming-Na Wen Quotes

I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

Ming-Na Wen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: November 20, 1963

Topics

WorkFamilyLoveGreatJobMom

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

Jeff Koons

WorkHopeArtTogetherPeopleWorld

I just want to be who I am, as I am.

Spike Jonze

I AmWantJustWhoAm

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Simon Pegg

HumorThinkAmericanUnderstanding

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Robert De Niro

RomeItalyChanged

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.

Matisyahu

MeActingClassBeyondKidWhatever

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

Mick Taylor

BlackMusiciansAmericaYouBlues

My mother told me, 'Always do your best,' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

Luke Benward

MotherHumbleBestDo Your BestMe

All I ever know is what I want to do next.

Julia Holter

KnowWantNextEver

I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

BookAppreciateChurchKnowSacred

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Don Mattingly

WorkDecisionsTemptationWantWay

I remember, as a kid, thinking more about, you know, watching the world go by and being amazed by how both complex but consistent and elegant it was. You know, why, you know, when you put that cold glass of water on the table, it kind of warms up at a very predictable way.

Dean Kamen

WaterWorldColdThinkingRemember

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

Cornelia Parker

TryingGoThroughArtistsDipTend

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