Gong Li famous quotes

Securing food is the basic task for all humans,
-- Gong Li

#Tasks #Humans

I don't think of myself as a star. An actress is nothing remarkable.
-- Gong Li

#Stars #Thinking #Acting

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
-- Gong Li

#People #Attention #Pushing

I appreciate it if I make a Chinese film. And if there is an opportunity to make a Hollywood film, I will take it - especially because, as you probably know, in Hollywood, even today, there are not a lot of big roles for Asian performers. So it is a great opportunity. It is possible to make films that people everywhere enjoy. I travel quite a lot. I don't really feel like when I am in China, I am a Chinese person and when I'm here, I'm a foreigner. I don't feel that kind of difference anymore. In the past I did. Not anymore. I feel quite at home everywhere. The whole world is my home.
-- Gong Li

#Home #Past #Opportunity

I have been approached to direct films, but I think everybody has their limits. For me, I want to focus all my energy and efforts on acting and give the best performance possible. For now, I am focusing on that. Who knows, in the future maybe I will change my mind.
-- Gong Li

#Thinking #Giving #Effort

So many women now in China are entering the workforce and also taking up very important positions CEOs, for example. The problem for many such women now is how to balance all the different kind of responsibilities that they take on and that they want to take up. They have to balance family and work and maybe kids. Chinese woman really have a strong desire to do that. They want to grab a hold of all these things. They are willing and able. But there is the challenge of how to keep the balance.
-- Gong Li

#Strong #Kids #Responsibility

It is true that as he film market in China has grown, actors' and actresses' compensation has grown quite a bit. Different actors have different kind of deals. Some take percentages, some sign contracts with a company, some take a simple cash payment. But the growth also means there are many more actors out there. Competition has gotten much stiffer, too.
-- Gong Li

#Mean #Simple #Competition

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

People have become educated, but have not become human.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.