James Hong Quotes

#1. Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I'm going to keep doing it.

James Hong

#2. We enjoy a considerable net inflow of capital and I am sure that a condition of its coming, and staying, is that it is free to flow out again. It is also important for Hong Kong's status as a financial centre that there should be a maximum freedom of capital movement both in and out.

John James Cowperthwaite

#3. We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

Anna Funder

#4. Live with passion and compassion, proceed with optimism, value disciplined thinking, be open to intimacy and love the mystery.

Saint Peter

#5. I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

Jeff Tweedy

#6. Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.

James Hong

#7. Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can't take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

Brenda Hiatt

#8. The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#9. The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

#10. Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

Cynthia Heimel

#11. it can be beneficial to disconnect from certain sources of information and streams of content so that you can cultivate a more curated flow of inspiration.

Todd Henry

#12. Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.

Thomas Boswell

#13. Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.

James Hong

#14. Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

James Hong

#15. Live how you want to live, not being influenced by others around you.

James Hong

#16. I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.

James Hong

#17. My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'

James Hong

#18. As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.

James Hong

#19. When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.

Leon Trotsky

#20. As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

James Hong

#21. [While voicing] you have to create a feeling for what happened before a scene, what's going to happen after a scene, and what you are doing in a scene. You need to use your imagination even more and once your emotions are up, then your voice and expressions will go accordingly.

James Hong

#22. When you look at the piece of paper, and there's just words on there, you interpret it as the actor to whatever you think is right. There may not be the hidden meaning behind the dialogue, because you don't really get to see what's going on.

James Hong

#23. Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

James Chanos