"The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible!"

-- Tony Leung Chiu Wai

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“When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.”
“The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.”
“You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.”
“The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do.”
“As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision”
“Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.”

Source : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com
“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”
“We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.”

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