Katie Leung Quotes

#1. I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.

Katie Leung

#2. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

#3. When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

Roger Crawford

#4. One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.

Katie Leung

#5. Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

Bill Pullman

#6. Majesty had no eyes whatsoever, but could discover no indications of their having existed at any previous period - for the space where eyes should naturally have been was, I am constrained to say, simply a dead level of flesh.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

Katie Leung

#8. Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate.

John Grisham

#9. Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Jeremy Bentham

#10. In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.

Katie Leung

#11. 'Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.

Katie Leung

#12. Video is crucial to the future of media: premium video in that respect.

Ross Levinsohn

#13. I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open.

Katie Leung

#14. I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

Margaret Deland

#15. I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.

Katie Leung

#16. I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

Katie Leung

#17. I teach people to question their thinking, and this changes their world.

Byron Katie

#18. Because as Europe and the United States become more diverse, it creates an anxiety, a racial anxiety, that is reflected in declining support for public space, public institutions, public infrastructure, and public education.

John A. Powell

#19. We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

Michael Horton

#20. I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from the audience, or it's so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I couldn't believe how easy acting was when there's an audience; after a few previews I almost couldn't do it without one.

Katie Leung

#21. I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

Katie Leung

#22. I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

Katie Leung

#23. We rarely get what we imagine in this world.

Stephen King

#24. Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands ...

Booker T. Washington

#25. A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

Terry Pratchett

#26. the medieval contract known as the census, which allowed one party to buy a stream of annual payments from another.

Niall Ferguson