Maggie Cheung Quotes

#1. Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.

Aporva Kala

#2. Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

Ian Williams

#3. I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.

Maggie Cheung

#4. I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

Maggie Cheung

#5. Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

Karen Marie Moning

#6. Well, that boy's voice," my grandmother told me, "that boy's voice could bring those mice back to life!" And it occurs to me now that Owen's voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to life - with a vengeance.

John Irving

#7. The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

Julianne Moore

#8. I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

Maggie Cheung

#9. Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

John Hodgman

#10. Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

Maggie Cheung

#11. Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

Lada Ray

#12. There's relief in not having to be outside. No gardening, no mowing the lawn, no tyranny of long daylight hours to fill with productive activity. We rip through summer, burning the hours and tearing up the land. Then snow comes like a bandage, and winter heals the wounds.

Jerry Dennis

#13. I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.

Maggie Cheung

#14. I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

Jane Smiley

#15. I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

Maggie Cheung

#16. I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

Clayton M Christensen

#17. People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

Maggie Cheung

#18. I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Maggie Cheung

#19. I can't tell you why I was in love with her. People didn't require that much as they do now. Folks were expected to be civilized to one another, honest, and - and clear. You relied on people being what they said they were, because there was no other way to survive.

Toni Morrison

#20. I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

Maggie Cheung

#21. One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Honore De Balzac

#22. I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

Kevin Nash