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Brigitte Lin

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“My motto is to always do your homework before any meeting or event, and to always dress for the occasion. Sometimes I say that it’s better to say nothing than to speak with no purpose!”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin on the Hong Kong Film Industry’s Golden Age" in Hong Kong Tatler (7 November 2012)
“That first experience of making movies was like being in heaven. I was so happy. Everyone treated me so well. I was so curious about acting; I love watching movies, so I really enjoyed it. Once, I was rehearsing on the set, and I felt so sad that people were leaving at the end of the day, but then I was relieved that we could keep doing this on the next day.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "An Interview with Brigitte Lin" in Far East Film Festival (24 March 2018)
“I never complained about the hardships. I just thought this was what I was supposed to do. I did that for 22 years. By the time I was doing Asia the Invincible, I felt like I didn’t have the energy to keep acting even though my heart wanted to. That’s when I thought about retirement. Swordsman II was a huge hit, and I told Nansun Shi that maybe it’s about time I retire.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "An Interview with Brigitte Lin" in Far East Film Festival (24 March 2018)
“Whatever the director asks me to do, I will do and make him happy. I’m a fool.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin: ‘In All My Movies, There Is Something of Myself’" in Film Doo (21 May 2018)
“While doing all this, I myself also developed my own personality and my way of acting, and the audience followed my growth. So when I played female characters who had strong personalities, I already had gone through some abundant, enriching real life experiences. By nature, I am a bit shy as a person, and so I was quite suited to making romantic films. I had many strong emotions in my heart, and I always wanted the audience to have a good impression of me, though I had many inner, suppressed feelings.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin: ‘In All My Movies, There Is Something of Myself’" in Film Doo (21 May 2018)
“There were no agents, no companies and as actors we had to do everything by ourselves. I would do my own make-up, prepare my own outfits from home and bring them to set the next day.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her filmmaking environment within the emerging Taiwanese cinema industry in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018)
“I almost got no sleep, shooting eight hours in one film, followed by eight hours in another and eight hours in a third film. But whenever we were done at the end of the day, I never thought of packing up. I always couldn’t bear to go home.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018)
“The rhythm in Hong Kong was much quicker, and there was a whole organization that took care of me. When my films were shown there, I became famous overnight. A lot of producers [reached out] to me and I didn’t know what to choose, what kind of offer to accept. In some cases, I simply wasn’t allowed to say no.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018)
“Writing is tiring and difficult, but I can sit at my desk for hours and hours, writing through the night to dawn. I never had any prior writing experience, but I learned that it’s not about using heavy vocabulary, and more about how I can express my sincerity.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018)
“Now we are living in the digital age. I feel very lucky and appreciative that young people now have the opportunity of coming to know the kind of films we shot in the past.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin, a timeless national treasure" in Taipei Times (15 May 2018)