Jessica Yu quotes

“What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.”
-- Jessica Yu

Source : "Fast-track Oscars as speeches are limited" by Richard Simpson, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 14, 2001.

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“We shouldn't feel insulated just because water flows freely from our taps.”
-- Jessica Yu

Source : "We Are Not Immune to the Water Crisis" by Jessica Yu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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“Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.”

“I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.”

“It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.”

“Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.”

“There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.”

“Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!”

“My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.”

“I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.”

“I have always felt proud of my Oscars and my numerous nominations. This pride is due to the fact it was the result of voters from the members of my own profession. This, of course, is a great compliment for one's work. I hope each winner of an Oscar is as thrilled as I was when I received mine.”

“There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.”