"When audiences look at an action actor like……" — Donnie Yen
"When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too."
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39 Quotes by Donnie Yen
Donnie Yen has 39 quotes on this site.
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There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school,…
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I'm a very emotional guy.
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Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
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I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.
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Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
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As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.
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Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.
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For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.
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For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this…
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From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being…
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I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of…
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I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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