Gong Li Quotes

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood director came to me with a script and wanted me to play a character, and she was a stereotypical Asian woman who gets into a fight and gets killed off quickly, that didn't seem to have much interest for me.

Gong Li

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: December 31, 1964

Topics

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Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.

Joe Garcia

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I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

Maxine Peake

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There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

John Scalzi

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Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.

Jason Blum

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I talk to my parents a couple of times a week. I talk to my daughters every day.

Denise Morrison

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I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Christine Lahti

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2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

Chris Sacca

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For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

Bob Kahn

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So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

Susan Estrich

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I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play a character for a long period of time, and you get to dig deep. It's a home to go to.

Paula Malcomson

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I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

Tim Burton

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