"True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one."

“The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.”

“What comes from the heart always reaches the heart. When I come in there, I'm giving my heart because I studied to show myself approved, I know my lines, I understand the character. This is my interpretation! So, I encourage everybody to really get comfortable with yourself. Stay true to your authentic self, and stop being worried about people. We are all the same, at the end of the day. No one can make or break your career. You can make or break your career. There's no competition. Just focus on what you came do.”

“We don`t need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.”

“Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee.”

Source : "China's Xi to tread peaceful, patient path on Taiwan", www.reuters.com. February 25, 2013.

“But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.”

“[W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And when you're doing fiction you're trying to do the opposite thing you're trying to take this very artificial experience this very artificial experience and make it feel real and visceral.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.”

Source : "The Frightening Hungarian Crackdown". www.newyorker.com. January 8, 2013.

“In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.”