Stephen Chow Quotes

#1. If organs as elemental as brain and heart can be persuaded to regenerate, and others, like ears and corneas, can be fashioned from living ink, how will that change us as a species? Will the printing of organs affect our evolution? Could it alter our genes?

Diane Ackerman

#2. The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

Daniel Odier

#3. The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.

Theodore Sturgeon

#4. If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

Stephen Chow

#5. Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

Stephen Chow

#6. The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

Amanda Lindhout

#7. I think my English is bad.

Stephen Chow

#8. There were lines people drew in their lives, and subsequently, they thought of everything else as having happened "before" and "after" those points.

Susan Jane Bigelow

#9. I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Stephen Chow

#10. What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

FKA Twigs

#11. To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

Stephen Chow

#12. From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

Stephen Chow

#13. If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

Stephen Chow

#14. A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Stephen Chow

#15. I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

Stephen Chow

#16. Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

Stephen Chow

#17. I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

Stephen Chow

#18. I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.

Stephen Chow

#19. I like working as a director most.

Stephen Chow

#20. Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Walter Lippmann

#21. Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

Stephen Chow

#22. I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

Stephen Chow

#23. The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

Andrew Johnson

#24. Mind sees demons when heart full of evil.

Toba Beta

#25. There's no common taste in this world.

Stephen Chow

#26. Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Frank Crane

#27. They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

Malcolm X

#28. I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

Stephen Chow

#29. You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.

Sebastian Bach

#30. Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

Jonathan Swift

#31. Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

Stephen Chow

#32. Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

Stephen Chow

#33. And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ... eventually ... fall.

Edward Albee

#34. One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

Stephen Chow