Donnie Yen Quotes & Sayings

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54 most famous Donnie Yen quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 60 year old American actor born on Jul 27, 1963.

Donnie Yen Quotes
“Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.”
“Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off - they want to see a love story. But Ip Man is a family man, so the women see this and go: 'I want my husband to be like this man. He'll be a scholar, he'll be fighting, he'll care for the family.' So we had a bigger audience.”
“I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.”
Donnie Yen Quotes
“Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.”
Donnie Yen Quotes
“My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.”
Donnie Yen Quotes
“For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.”
Donnie Yen Quotes
“I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.”
Donnie Yen Quotes
“An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.”
“Police/gangster films always have a huge following and huge audience because of the power, glamour, and certain fantasy aspect they have to them. When people watch movies, they like to fantasize being in a surreal world, and sometimes a criminal world can be attractive because you possess so much power and money, not like the average 9 to 5 guy.”
“I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.”

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