Gong Quotes

We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it’s very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father – and I want that to be open to him.

Politics isn’t a reality show or a gong show. It’s not show business for ugly people. It’s the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It’s a total ‘Gong Show.’ I won‘t pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can’t be great at everything.

Tuff Gong is the name of our father‘s enterprise, and we’re continuing his legacy.

After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk music we’d been listening to. Lots of Canterbury scene stuff from the 1960s and ’70s. Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong.

I certainly didn’t say while writing ‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘Oh this is going to be big!’ It was really like, ‘Oh god, everyone‘s gong to hate these people! They’re so bratty!’ But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing – I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time – Gong and Hawkwind – and I was clumping around.

The real concern for the Russians is that they’re going to get closed out, that there’s gong to be a new ‘Iron Curtain‘… for European expansion and all of its institutional forms.

Gong Li is like the queen of movies.

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, ‘Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.’

Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that’s that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show – listen, my Uncle George isn’t known as anything. So I guess it isn’t so bad in that context.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid‘s house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

Certain formats should never be forgotten, ‘Blind Date‘ for instance, because ‘Britain‘s Got Talent’ is really ‘New Faces‘ or ‘The Gong Show,’ whilst we’re basically ‘Opportunity Knocks.’

Look at any inspired painting. It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

If someone‘s going to throw me in, I’m not gong to try and hit a ground ball to third, you know? I’m going to try and hit it in the air. If someone’s going to throw me away, I’m not going to try and hit a ground ball to second, I’m going to drive it to right-center.

I know plenty of people in China who don’t like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don’t want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

I love the film route and I’m gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

You’ve always got to have that inner confidence in you. That’s where it all starts. You’re gong to have good days, you’re going to have bad days. You’ve got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who’s ready when the gong rings – not just before, not just after – but when it rings.

Let’s bang the gong and chime for more Asian superheroes. The gatekeepers can certainly open the door – there’s a wealth of East Asian talent around, and that needs to be tapped into.

In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven‘t tidied up. That would be really helpful.