"From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once."

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"From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once."

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"Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like."

Concern, Girls, Pretty

"Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world."

Internet, News, Rest, Today

"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."

Acting,

"Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep."

Police, School, Sleep

"After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films."

Work, English

"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."

Friendship, People, First

"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."

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"I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening."

Life, Politics, War, Disaster

"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."

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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."

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"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Trust, Silence

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

Stephen King, American Author

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"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Trust, Will

"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Trust, Power, People, Exercise

"I trust no one, not even myself."

Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

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"Trust, but verify."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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