Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive
Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors
In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch. ' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.
You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.