Kung Fu Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

  Stephen King

  Lying, Oil, Giving

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1452, Anchor

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• ... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

  Christopher Moore

  Jesus, What If, Important

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.388, Hachette UK

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• We did two films [Kung Fu Panda], because the first two films were so embraced by the Chinese audiences we wanted to make something we could push further and since this is a co-production, it seemed like the perfect time to create something that felt native to Chinese audiences.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Two, Perfect, Kung Fu Panda

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province where the panda sanctuary is based, and we climbed to this beautiful, mist-covered, almost primordial place and when we turned these corners these moss covered old buildings would come into view, revealing themselves and it was so beautiful and so unlike anything we'd seen that we literally took those moments and put them into the film [Kung Fu Panda 3].

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Beautiful, Views, Old Buildings

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• We got the best actors imaginable [in Kung Fu Panda]. If we could have made a wish list I don't think there would anyone else we would have added. Yeah, we've been blessed with exactly how amazing a cast of actors we have. To have someone like Bryan Cranston, who is not just an amazing actor, but who has such a range.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Blessed, Thinking, Kung Fu Panda

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• One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Guy, Feelings, Insecurity

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• You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight translation, and then animating it and lighting it, it's a lot of work.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Artist, Two, Voice

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

  Jet Li

  Hong Kong, Remember, Demonstration

  Interview with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Real, Mistake, Character

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple new environments and different styles of animation.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Two, People, Kung Fu Panda

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Ghetto, Italian

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

  Keanu Reeves

  Movie, Actors, Want

  "Keanu Reeves Wants 'Man Of Tai Chi' To Be A 'Solid Kung Fu Movie'". www.mtv.com. April 05, 2011.

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• Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

  David Mamet

  Wrestling, Fighting, Culture

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.

  David Carradine

  Fighting, Decision, Experts

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• When you see all of the pandas in this movie [Kung Fu Panda 3], they are rolling because that is exactly what they do. Not only were we able to watch the pandas play but we had free range to walk around and get a feel for the architecture and get a sense of where they lived ,so there's a lot of firsthand exploration.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Play, Kung Fu Panda, Rolling

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• He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

  Christopher Moore

  Mean, Guy, Method

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• Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little paintings on all the gables and everything? They have meaning, and they could do that because they know what that means, we don't necessarily know about that over here.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Kung Fu Panda, Pandas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

  Stephen Chow

  Soccer, Children, Two

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• I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

  David Carradine

  Chinese, Needs, Accents

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• But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

  Jaime King

  Funny Things, Broke, Stairs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

  Bruce Lee

  Learning, Skills, Growth

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• He tried not to love that she could recite scenes from Ghostbusters, that she liked kung fu movies and could name all of the original X-Men— because those seemed like reasons a guy would fall for a girl in a Kevin Smith movie.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Fall, Men

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