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"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
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"Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep."
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"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
Acting
"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."
Time
"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."
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"Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like."
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"I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place."
Mom
"There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside."
Mother
"From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once."
Trust
"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."
Movies
"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."
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"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."
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"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."
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"Acting is very start and stop."
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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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