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"My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things."

"An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice."

"The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'"

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
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"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."

"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid."

"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."

"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."

"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."

"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."

"There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!"

"Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further."
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