Gong Li Quotes

#1. Occasionally a red taxi or Mercedes-Benz would squeeze by along the iron fence and burst free, the driver holding down the horn button so furiously that he might detonate the air bag.

Neal Stephenson

#2. I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring feeling.

Gong Li

#3. A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.

Gong Li

#4. States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

Roger Scruton

#5. When you are happy, be thankful and your happiness is greatly multiplied. When you are feeling down, be thankful and youll soon be feeling much better.

Ralph Marston

#6. For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

Gong Li

#7. I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

Gong Li

#8. Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

Camryn Manheim

#9. The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Gong Li

#10. Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

John Dryden

#11. She was a former Texan - proud, loud and stubborn. But you can't really be a former Texan. You can only move out of Texas. To be a former Texan would be like growing up in Italy, moving out and being formerly Italian.

Jeffrey Michelson

#12. Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

Gong Li

#13. We don't typically use music. We don't manipulate our audience into what we think it should feel. We tell the truth. That's 'Southland' Style' ... and I love it!

Shawn Hatosy

#14. You realize you're a bit scary, right?" he said. Cleo

A.J. Tipton

#15. Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt ...

Sandra Boynton

#16. I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

George Soros

#17. People keep pushing me to be the center of attention ... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

Gong Li

#18. While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.

Deepak Chopra

#19. Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.

Gong Li

#20. My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

Gong Li

#21. I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.

Gong Li

#22. If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

Alexander Payne

#23. When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

Gong Li

#24. The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.

Gong Li