Donnie Yen Quotes

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

Donnie Yen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: July 27, 1963

Topics

LifeDailyCharacterJobDaily Life

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

John D. Barrow

UniverseReasonConvenienceNo Reason

All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.

John Walters

EducationGovernmentSchoolSupport

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

Mercedes Lackey

LifeFamilyRestHellMy LifeEarth

Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

Ruud Gullit

TimeQuestionsWallPersonKnowMay

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

Roz Chast

FatherDeathPainThinkEndBetter

We're running out of rich people in this country.

Michele Bachmann

PeopleRichCountryOutRich People

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

Mohammed Morsi

CulturePeoplePerformanceJudgeYou

It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.

Jools Holland

GreatDeadCornerWouldLikeStudio

In actual fact, I doubled 'Twelfth Night' and 'The Avengers'. I was going backwards and forwards to Stratford. I played matinees Wednesday, matinee and evenings Saturdays, and the other days of the week, I was filming in Elstree.

Diana Rigg

NightWeekWednesdayBackwardsDays

People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.

Doug Liman

PeopleNobodyTalkHardMovieHow

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.

Chris Cornell

TeacherSchoolPracticeYouKind

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

Christine McVie

WritingLearnFloatingRoomAnything

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