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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

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Zhang Ziyi
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: February 9
Actor
Dancer
Film Actor
Film Actress
Model
Stage Actor
Peking
Ziyi Zhang
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. In the Mood for Love, though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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China's cinema has been rising for some time it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
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Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
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Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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