Y.S. Lee Quotes

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture with their minds when you don't want them to see you at your worst. Trust me, they SEE and HEAR everything.

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.

I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.

It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I''m just a guy playin' some blues.

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

... humility + humor = humanity.

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing.

People should know whatever it is you love to do. I am a living testament to the fact that you can do it. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to and you can do it in stilettos.

I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

People fear the unforeseen and the unseen. Truth be told we all fear the unseen.

The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

A thing that most creatives don't do well is that you've gotta learn to listen.

If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people.

[In 2004] That's how I got a relationship with Steve Jobs. Because I listened really hard to him cause he's the smartest guy I ever worked for.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.