Theyre not willing to admit that Ive also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad. – Zhang Ziyi
Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends. – Zhang Ziyi
From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldnt 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. – Zhang Ziyi
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
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,