Zhang Ziyi Quotes

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

Zhang Ziyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: February 9, 1979

Topics

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In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.

John Davidson

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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

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It's very hard to come up with ideal situations... With different moods and the difficulties of traveling around, I often play my best under the worst conditions.

Stephen Hough

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When I was younger, I always assumed that when I grew up, I would be living in the country, and my kids would be going to a state school. But that's not how things have turned out. I can't see myself being able to leave London.

Stella McCartney

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In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Robert Bresson

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Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Christopher Hitchens

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The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

Colin Firth

ChildClothesKnowBuyLastWell

If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.

Arielle Kebbel

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Being passed up by teams because of my size made me hungry. I've seen a lot of first-round guys who come in and never really do nothing because they may not appreciate the opportunity because everything has been given to them. I think guys who come from the bottom understand how hard it is, so they appreciate the opportunities more.

Antonio Brown

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I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

Atom Egoyan

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Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

Norbert Leo Butz

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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Richard Brautigan

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