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"Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up."
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"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."
"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."
"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
"Don't wait for the opportunity, create it."
"One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity."
"Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats."
"No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!"
"It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower."
"A golden opportunity may turn into silver if you wait too long to take advantage of it."
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"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
"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."
"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."
"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
"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."
"They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad."
"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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