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Zhang Ziyi Quotes
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~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
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.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
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.
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Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood! I couldn't believe the first day I walked on the set. Rob Marshall walked me like a tourist round the set. It took 40 minutes, so how big was that? Today it can be winter, and tomorrow summer. Everything's unbelievable.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
They just don't endorse or support their own movies and their own actors. Is it because they don't understand the movie? This issue really baffles me.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
There were a lot of people's efforts behind the screens to make such a wonderful film.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
I don't like kick-ass stereotypical roles. I already turn a lot down, even when they promise me a lot of money. I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
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.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote
I try not to pay much attention to the whole movie star thing.
~ Zhang Ziyi Quote