Tony Leung Quotes & Sayings

My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn't have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

The angels had guitars before they had wings. — Meat Loaf

The most important aspect of detente today is that there is no ideological detente. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust. — J. P. Morgan

Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. — Michael Pollan

I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and explore the character. He gives you a lot of space, and you know every time will be a very long journey. You just live in the character, and that's very different from other directors. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.' — J.K. Rowling

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat. — John Woo

Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

John Woo is a very nice and kind person; he gives almost no direction at all, trusting me to come up with the character. But when I think of him, I think of explosions! — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing. — Neale Donald Walsch

I did leave something behind with you: my heart. Of course, you didn't know it at the time. Maybe I didn't either. What have you done with my heart, Leo? Have you taken good care of it? Have you misplaced it? — Jerry Spinelli

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true. — Tony Leung Chiu-Wai