Ip Man Quotes

#1. I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of research, get into the character. That's what I did with 'Dragon.'

Donnie Yen

#2. Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.

Czeslaw Milosz

#3. If what has happened makes us happy, we call it "good." If it causes pain, we call it "bad.

Bruce Van Horn

#4. Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.

Yasunari Kawabata

#5. Success is not only in the hand; it is in the heart.

Bryant McGill

#6. A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling "Thief."
If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
Nor has the fool been enriched.
The thief flatters us by stealing.
We flatter him by complaining.

Ben Hecht

#7. Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

Walid Muallem

#8. It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

Ben Kingsley

#9. On her one glance upwards, enough paintings are created by heavenly maidens on the magical canvas of god.

Manan Sheel

#10. I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

Isabelle Adjani