I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
ZIYI ZHANG Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So yo...
ZIYI ZHANG I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But...
ZIYI ZHANG Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
ZIYI ZHANG Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show les...
ZIYI ZHANG I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had t...
ZIYI ZHANG It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was tra...
ZIYI ZHANG My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so mu...
ZIYI ZHANG China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming in...
ZIYI ZHANG My profession has helped me to grow up.
ZIYI ZHANG I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are...
ZIYI ZHANG In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, an...
ZIYI ZHANG I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear ...
ZIYI ZHANG I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable ...
ZIYI ZHANG I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
ZIYI ZHANG I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
ZIYI ZHANG For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
ZIYI ZHANG There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, s...
ZIYI ZHANG Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
ZIYI ZHANG When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given s...
ZHANG ZIYI We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the...
ZHANG ZIYI There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She w...
ZHANG ZIYI There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so qu...
ZHANG ZIYI Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked ...
ZHANG ZIYI I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own lif...
ZHANG ZIYI Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I w...
ZHANG ZIYI Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so ut...
ZHANG ZIYI Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concer...
ZHANG ZIYI Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn...
ZHANG ZIYI Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from al...
ZHANG ZIYI They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for m...
ZHANG ZIYI Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoi...
ZHANG ZIYI Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opp...
ZHANG ZIYI I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It w...
ZHANG ZIYI After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
ZHANG ZIYI Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of off...
ZHANG ZIYI That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time ...
ZHANG ZIYI There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that r...
ZHANG ZIYI When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begi...
ZHANG ZIYI The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every d...
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 wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as ...
ZHANG ZIYI From my opinion, geisha means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical...
ZIYI ZHANG From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing music...
ZHANG ZIYI Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
ZIYI ZHANG House of Flying Daggers
ZIYI ZHANG They are also skilled in the art of conversation,
ZIYI ZHANG I am a professional actress, and that is what I do. I learn about a character, and then I play that ...
ZIYI ZHANG From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing music...
ZIYI ZHANG I am not stuck-up, as some articles say.
ZHANG ZIYI From my opinion, ‘geisha’ means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and ...
ZHANG ZIYI After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
ZHANG ZIYI There were a lot of people's efforts behind the screens to make such a wonderful film.
ZHANG ZIYI A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors.
ZHANG ZIYI People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no am...
ZHANG ZIYI I don't care if you love me or not. I'll love you anyway.
ZHANG ZIYI From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing music...
ZHANG ZIYI I try not to pay much attention to the whole movie star thing.
ZHANG ZIYI From my opinion, geisha means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical...
ZHANG ZIYI From my opinion, ‘geisha’ means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing m...
ZHANG ZIYI Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, f...
ZHANG ZHIDONG We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
ZHANG ZHIDONG People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classic...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education...
ZHANG ZHIDONG If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the...
ZHANG ZHIDONG If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a hor...
ZHANG ZHIDONG The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counti...
ZHANG ZHIDONG I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particular...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of f...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare...
ZHANG ZHIDONG In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classic...
ZHANG ZHIDONG In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to de...
ZHANG ZHIDONG If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China ...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning ...
ZHANG ZHIDONG How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to ha...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
ZHANG ZHIDONG Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let ...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich o...
ZHANG ZHIDONG The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretchi...
ZHANG ZHIDONG There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strengt...
ZHANG ZHIDONG If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge...
ZHANG ZHIDONG My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
ZHANG YIN I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it...
ZHANG YIN Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
ZHANG YIN In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the tim...
ZHANG YIN Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
ZHANG YIN People in misery is what most important in art.
ZHANG YIMOU I must stick with Chinese language films.
ZHANG YIMOU For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
ZHANG YIMOU I am a fan of wuxia.
ZHANG YIMOU I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better sto...
ZHANG YIMOU You must know what you are capable of.
ZHANG YIMOU The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
ZHANG YIMOU This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
ZHANG YIMOU Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get...
ZHANG YIMOU But I think we need the international market.
ZHANG YIMOU Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
ZHANG YIMOU To survive is to win.
ZHANG YIMOU People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the ...
ZHANG YIMOU Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
ZHANG YIMOU Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
ZHANG YIMOU HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
ZHANG YIMOU To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
ZHANG YIMOU Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
ZHANG YIMOU It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a n...
ZHANG XIN I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with ...
ZHANG XIN Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a...
ZHANG XIN Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company...
ZHANG XIN China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness...
ZHANG XIN I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast wi...
ZHANG XIN I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
ZHANG XIN I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from...
ZHANG XIN On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or gett...
ZHANG XIN China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune ...
ZHANG JINDONG Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight...
ZHANG JINDONG We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alib...
ZHANG JINDONG When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to...
ZHANG JINDONG Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not wan...
ZHANG JINDONG In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win bus...
ZHANG JINDONG Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his des...
ZHANG YIMOU There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
FENG ZHANG There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be a...
FENG ZHANG Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into spe...
FENG ZHANG If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World...
FENG ZHANG The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of ...
FENG ZHANG What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when...
ZHANG JIE Rage can be so common it turns ambient.
JENNY ZHANG I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other...
JENNY ZHANG Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in norma...
FENG ZHANG I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for gra...
JENNY ZHANG Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongu...
JENNY ZHANG It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than f...
JENNY ZHANG Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of a...
JENNY ZHANG Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psy...
JENNY ZHANG The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think the...
JENNY ZHANG Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely no...
ZHANG JINDONG Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.
ZHANG JINDONG If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to ...
JENNY ZHANG Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot...
ZHANG ZHIDONG We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the ...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
ZHANG YIMOU I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
ZHANG YIMOU Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for per...
ZHANG ZHIDONG When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both cov...
JENNY ZHANG Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dab...
JENNY ZHANG I love you", once you say this sentence to a girl, it signifies that you have a responsibility towar...
YIXING ZHANG Why did my mother, a grown woman, get to talk like all her hopes and dreams had been shat on, kicked...
JENNY ZHANG China's ancient books may be destroyed by acidification within a hundred years if repair techniques ...
ZHANG ZHIQING Any clear-sighted person can see that this is a vicious slander against China,
ZHANG QIYUE On relevant countries' development of missile defense system, China's stance is: We think it will af...
ZHANG YAN To cover migrant workers under the charity umbrella, I think, is one of the country's recent endeavo...
ZHANG LIQUN There will be more opportunities in cement stocks, because the foreign investment topic will likely ...
ZHANG QI China hopes all sides will deepen their discussions based on previously reached agreements, includin...
ZHANG QIYUE Through this kind of sex education, we expect to arouse the sexual instincts of giant pandas, enhanc...
ZHANG HEMIN I realized that the soldier plays a major role in building the army from the moment I started my ser...
ZHANG TAO Housekeeping? If it pays well, I might as well have a try.
ZHANG MING My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness th...
JENNY ZHANG I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.
ZHANG YIMOU We also need to develop our bond market and adhere to a scientific development approach to ensure a ...
ZHANG TAO As he has just had the operation, Yao Ming will not be able to immediately return to the national te...
ZHANG MINGJI Peugeot, which used to be lukewarm in China, is gearing up now. Peugeot may record faster sales grow...
YALE ZHANG The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if w...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accid...
JENNY ZHANG I have received a reply from the Supreme People's Court which said the issue might be resolved this ...
ZHANG LI It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that stil...
JENNY ZHANG If the contaminated water had been supplied to households, the result would have been unimaginable.
ZHANG LIJUN His prose has distinctive features: smooth and natural, clear and refined and good at recording stor...
ZHANG YIWU Absorbing new member states needs a legal basis, yet the SCO has no rules concerning the issue. Ther...
ZHANG DEGUANG All members of the international community should make due efforts in accordance with that. China wi...
ZHANG QIYUE This commitment has never changed and will remain unchanged in the future. That's an important polic...
ZHANG YAN Like other countries in the world, there are various sorts of comments and guesses on China's milita...
ZHANG YAN The self-refinery of Buddhism does not lie in the form of exercise. Not all people sitting in a lotu...
ZHANG JIANMIN'S Buddha will not bless you directly. The point is, you can handle any trouble if you master the spiri...
ZHANG JIANMIN'S It's getting more comfortable here. The once lifeless hills are covered in green. We used to wear ja...
ZHANG JIANHUA I wish second chances were real.
AMY ZHANG When you loosen that up, and people can drive small cars everywhere, then people will buy.
YALE ZHANG It's risky for local companies to start at the high end. Their brands aren't strong enough.
YALE ZHANG These consumers don't really care about the prices.
YALE ZHANG Volkswagen's China sales are expected to recover slightly starting from the second half of this year...
YALE ZHANG Zhang's passing is undoubtedly a great loss for China's literary circles.
ZHANG YIWU Skill is from the unskilled.
ZHANG JIANMIN'S We think that this a very dangerous step on the road to split the country.
ZHANG QIYUE The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in...
JENNY ZHANG We hope to see real progress in this round of talks.
ZHANG QIYUE And the proportion will increase to 10 per cent by 2020.
ZHANG GUOBAO Her swiftness helps her,
ZHANG NING The injury will not affect my future in competition. The ligament on the left leg is a little bit sp...
ZHANG DAN It has more than 5,000 registered members. Among them are entrepreneurs, police officers, profession...
ZHANG JUN (PNTR) will keep our credit relationships stable. Everyone won't have to worry if the tariff rate wi...
ZHANG YUANYUAN Our results were obtained from rats, and there's a big difference between rats and humans. So, I don...
XIA ZHANG So we think it is necessary to make our messages clear and loud.
ZHANG JIANGUO These transportation projects, especially the metro lines, will further spur the real estate market,...
ZHANG JUN We believe it's an unfair means to achieve a competitive edge.
ZHANG YUANYUAN The young people are rather interested in watching the American feature films. But over time they fo...
ZHANG YUANYUAN This is not a perfect world. If we have problems, we have to find ways to solve them without stoppin...
ZHANG YUANYUAN Curing the sick and saving lives, no matter where, are the kind of inter-people activities that cann...
ZHANG YONG I did not feel so much pain as several days ago and I can walk freely now.
ZHANG DAN The entire process of the trial in this case also was conducted in strict legal compliance, and the ...
ZHANG QIYUE