Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China's culture.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

You get much more heat when you do something current.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.