Byung Quotes & Sayings

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break. — Lee Byung-hun

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. — Michael Connelly

The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the master himself has become a laboring slave. In this society of compulsion, everyone carries a work camp inside. This labor camp is defined by the fact that one is simultaneously prisoner and guard, victim and perpetrator. One exploits oneself. It means that exploitation is possible even without domination. — Byung-Chul Han

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show. — Lady Gaga

Whenever I open a movie, I go secretly to the theater and stand in the back and enjoy the moment. I laugh when people laugh, and when people cry, I laugh. — Lee Byung-hun

It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key. — Phil Klay

I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training. — Lee Byung-hun

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me. — Lee Byung-hun

For 'The Rise of Cobra,' I was dieting more and using protein powder to help supplement my meals. For 'Retaliation,' however, I opted for more natural protein. I had a chicken breast and broccoli meal about five times every day. I also drank plenty of water and made sure I got enough rest. — Lee Byung-hun

Deep tiredness loosens the strictures of identity. Things flicker, twinkle, and vibrate at the edges. They grow less determinate and more porous and lose some of their resolution. This particular in-difference lends them an aura of friendliness. Rigid delimitation with respect to one's surroundings is suspended: — Byung-Chul Han

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts. — Walead Beshty

Words are all we have. — Samuel Beckett

Hard work, determination, discipline and dedication will determine your level of success. — Angela Khristin Brown

I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up. — Ted Nugent

Having - and keeping to - a regular exercise routine is crucial. And forget about those extreme diets - they aren't healthy. — Lee Byung-hun

It was a sense that reality was thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves. But — Stephen King

The unenvied man is not enviable. — Aeschylus

The complaint of the depressive individual, "Nothing is possible," can only occur in a society that thinks, "Nothing is impossible. — Byung-Chul Han

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated. — Lee Byung-hun

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life. — Lee Byung-hun

In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. — H.L. Mencken

G.I. Joe is not shown in Korea at all, basically, so a lot of people didn't know about G.I. Joe and I also didn't have the information about G.I. Joe. — Lee Byung-hun

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films. — Lee Byung-hun

From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century is determined neither by bacteria nor by viruses, but by neurons. Neurological illnesses such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and burnout syndrome mark the landscape of pathology at the beginning of the twenty-first century. They are not infections, but infarctions; they do not follow from the negativity of what is immunologically foreign, but from an excess of positivity. Therefore, they elude all technologies and techniques that seek to combat what is alien. — Byung-Chul Han

According to Ehrenberg, depression spreads when the commandments and prohibitions of disciplinary society yield to self-responsibility and initiative. In reality, it is not the excess of responsibility and initiative that makes one sick, but the imperative to achieve: the new commandment of late-modern labor society. — Byung-Chul Han

A style similar to Song Hye Gyo's is my ideal type. — Lee Byung-hun

Maybe. But you know, when you love someone you love them. And every day you sit back pretending that you don't is one less day you have with him. — Katie Klein

Fundamental tiredness" suspends egological isolation and founds a community that needs no kinship. — Byung-Chul Han

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre. — Margaret Thatcher

Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family. — Lee Byung-hun

Who'll try it?" Samantha asked. — John Grisham