Kung Fu Quotes - Page 2

• Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.

  RZA

  Moving, Fall, Enlightenment

  Source: www.complex.com

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• As many peo­ple have pointed out, the scene in ‘Kung Fu Hus­tle’ where the Land­lady was chas­ing after me resem­bled the Road­run­ner, … I loved to watch car­toons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

  Stephen Chow

  Running, Book, Land

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• I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

  David Carradine

  Years, Cartoon, Involved

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• I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Thinking, Kung Fu Panda

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• I think we had to push forward to make sure it was different, do something that we had never done before and yet still have the consistency to stay in the same world. This was our chance to do all the things we didn't get a chance to do before. We've been working on these movies [Kung Fu Panda] for twelve years and we have to keep things exciting for us in order for us to devote that many years of our lives to do this.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Thinking, Order, Years

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• I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Dad, Sunday

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2010.

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• If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

  David Carradine

  Choices, Legends, Trust Yourself

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• When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Practice, Etc

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• When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

  Dan Fogler

  Silly, Kids, Guy

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• First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

  Riz Ahmed

  Lying, Games, Drug

  "Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• I did kung fu from when I was nine to 13. You have to be really careful but you want to be able to make it look eventually as though it's just a part of you. So, you train over and over and over again.

  Channing Tatum

  Looks, Want, Able

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

  Scott Lynch

  Powerful, Artist, Presence Of Mind

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• I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. It´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent can´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.

  Wong Shun Leung

  Real, Thinking, Hands

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• I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

  Milla Jovovich

  Children, Father, Son

  "Milla Jovovich Talks RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION, Where Things Pick Up in the Fifth Movie, and the Possibility of a Sixth at Comic-Con". Interview, collider.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.

  Carl Douglas

  Revenge, Kids, Fighting

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• A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.

  Bruce Lee

  Pride, Men, Worry

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• There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Fun, Wire, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do kung fu, we brush our teeth. It's just assumed that you're not working your ass off to make this believable and make this something great, and we absolutely are.

  Maggie Q

  People, Teeth, Asian

  Source: collider.com

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• The genre of '80s action movies, I think, changed really when The Matrix came out and Keanu Reeves was able to perform kung fu. Then you had Matt Damon in the Bourne films, doing a great job. So it's different now, they can train actors to do their own fights convincingly on screen, so those guys aren't needed anymore. But I think everything goes around in circles; people still do want to see the guys that can do stuff for real, that's why The Expendables is so popular. I think it will come back again.

  Scott Adkins

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

  Stephen Chow

  Wings, Style, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean. I think it's ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do. I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don't have to be strong.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Ocean, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

  Dana Gould

  Kids, Generations

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• Well we've got to do a lot of kung fu choreography, which was really cool. Like I have, you know, like the big hammer that I use, kind of like a staff in a sense. So I get to use that like a really cool weapon. Kung fu style. And it's just really fun to get to learn that and execute it in a way that looks cool on screen. It just feels really rewarding.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Fun, Style, Weapons

  Source: collider.com

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• I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

  David Carradine

  Dancer, Gymnast, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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