Sammo Hung Quotes

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

I like making movies and would like to make it my career when I'm finished playing football.

I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of mine. It's a true love. Dancing, I kind of just fell into. Choreographing, the same thing. But making films, producing and directing, that's the heartbeat of my existence.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

Most of the time when I'm in Australia I'm not really working, it seems. I'm just at home, getting on with renovating my house or writing music or whatever. So I get back to doing all the stuff that I naturally do. Whereas if I'm away working, that's all there is to do, is to concentrate on the work.

The only time I go on the set is when I have a cameo to do in the picture. I go to the set and I do my little cameo and I meet all the people. It's a great way to spend the day. And then I go back to my own world.

I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.

I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.