Still 17 Korean Drama Quotes

I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas. ~ Psy

These Korean shopkeepers seem pretty angry at me for not being Korean. ~ Stephen Schneider

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough. ~ Min Jin Lee

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime. ~ Kim Dae-jung

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean. ~ Chris Hardwick

Stretch your arms no further than your sleeve's reach. ~ Korean Proverb.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people. ~ Paul Robeson

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons. ~ Kim Hyesoon

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils. ~ Park Chan-wook

I like Korean employees, and I like Korean tenants. ~ Donald Sterling

I tried four times to get into the Central School of Speech and Drama before I got accepted. I started when I was 17, which was too young, in retrospect, and finally went when I was 21. I just kept plugging away. Determined? Yeah, I think I was. ~ Catherine Tate

If Sony's not going to show 'The Interview,' that's it. No more North Korean movies for me. ~ Conan O'Brien

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside. ~ Hans Vestberg

Drama drama drama. The public wants it, so let them get the whole ugly mess. Why not? ~ Elaine Stritch

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me. ~ Sinbad

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist. ~ Chang-rae Lee

Aim high in your career, but stay humble in your heart. ~ Korean Proverb.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician. ~ Tablo

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. ~ Aly Khan

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean. ~ Park Chan-wook

I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it's sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours. ~ Heather Graham

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention. ~ Charles B. Rangel

I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953. ~ Buzz Aldrin

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il. ~ Ed Royce

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation. ~ John Eisenhower

Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make excuses to stay stuck in drama. I choose not to step into a web of drama that I can't get out of. ~ Bindu

I was drafted during the Korean War. ~ Clint Eastwood

If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her. ~ Psy

In Toronto and Los Angeles, too, there are a lot of Koreans - Koreatown, Korean markets. I feel like I'm at home and very comfortable. ~ Kim Yuna

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films. ~ Kim Ji-woon

When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where I come from. My family is of Korean descent and specifically North Korean descent. So it makes sense for me to talk about that issue because it's the only weapon I have to somehow avenge my family and my history. ~ Margaret Cho

That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition. ~ Brian Reynolds Myers

Americans don't want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed. ~ Paddy Chayefsky

I want them (the North Korean delegation) to understand that it would be difficult to see progress of the normalization talks unless we see their sincerity over the abduction, nuclear and missile issues. ~ Koichi Haraguchi

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule. ~ Sanjeev Bhaskar

I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language. ~ Patrick Stump

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it. ~ Ed O'Neill

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. ~ Daniel J. Evans

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. ~ Clint Eastwood

There may be a lot of kids in this world, but the stupid ones are always stupid in the same way. ~ Yongsoo Park

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. ~ Chang-rae Lee

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly. ~ Stephen Colletti

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.' ~ Conan O'Brien

Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind. ~ Geoffrey Sampson

Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche. ~ Min-sik Choi

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect. ~ Alan Brennert

People are not so interested,' Kim Sang-hun, director of the Database Center, told the Christian Science Monitor after his organization published the book. 'The indifference of South Korean society to the issue of North Korean rights is so awful. ~ Blaine Harden

Through CHRIST, we are made new creations in the likeness of GOD. ~ 2 Corinthians 5 17

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won. ~ Helen Thomas

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama. ~ Ram Dass

Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing. ~ David Letterman

I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects. ~ Bae Doona

Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues, ~ Junichiro Koizumi

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying. ~ Yukiya Amano

At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school. ~ Dan Stevens

Vaughn folded his arms. 'The reason why you've lasted longer than most of your erstwhile colleagues is because you don't do drama. I don't like drama. I get enough drama at home. My wife could teach the RSC a few things about drama.'

For someone who claimed that he didn't do drama, Vaughn was one of the biggest drama queens she knew. ~ Sarra Manning

There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama. ~ Josh Schwartz

You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom. ~ Soojung Jo

Westernization is an often-used word in Korea, and can be applied to something considered cold, lacking in jeong, and going against traditional Korean values. To suggest that Korean households are now "Westernized," whatever that may mean exactly, would be a gross oversimplification. ~ Daniel Tudor

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. ~ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. ~ Lee Myung-bak

Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based, Janet Poole is British though lives in Toronto, Brother Anthony was born here though is now a naturalised Korean citizen. There's also Chi-young Kim and Sora Kim-Russell, who are younger and do fiction for commercial houses. ~ Deborah Smith

My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled. ~ Chang-rae Lee

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship. ~ Chuck Feeney

I love drama. My passion is drama. It always has been. I love telling those sorts of stories. ~ Nathaniel Buzolic

What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ~ James 4 14 17

There's no drama like wrestling. ~ Andy Kaufman

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office. ~ Monica Crowley

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama. ~ Greg Louganis

In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama. ~ Wes Craven

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen! ~ Tahyna Tozzi

O'Dell's driver was a broad man with a Korean War crew cut, his hair the color of rolled steel. A hatchet nose split basalt eyes, and his lips were dry and thick: a Gila monster's. ~ John Sandford

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance. ~ Bong Joon-ho

I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be. ~ Lindsay Lohan

Tens of thousands of North Korean women have been sold to Chinese men. By some estimates, three quarters of the roughly 100,000 North Korean refugees living in China are women and more than half of them live in arranged unions with Chinese men. ~ Barbara Demick

When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama. ~ Mary Gaitskill

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years. ~ Phoebe Fox

I want to help promote Korean music around the world. ~ Swizz Beatz

The quality of Korean actors is actually quite high. Their passion is overwhelming but not many platforms are available to cater to their creative needs. They're thirsty for something new and I think that's where I connect with them. They have vision. In certain sense many Korean actors have better vision than directors. ~ Lee Yoon-ki

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant. ~ Margaret Cho

Getting caught up in the drama only creates more drama. Take an intermission, step out, chill out, ask yourself, what is this drama really about, what role am I playing? ~ Hazel Butterworth

In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean. So they would know where they were from. So they would know where they were going. ~ Nicola Yoon

I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much. ~ Jose Gonzalez

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other. ~ Gabrielle Zevin

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved. ~ Kat O'Keefe

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama. ~ Bruno Heller

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that. ~ Jeremy Irons

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give.
For we that live to please must please to live. ~ Samuel Johnson

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. ~ Frank Capra

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama. ~ Clint Eastwood

For in him we live and move and have our being.'As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring. ~ Acts 17:28(NIV)

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication. ~ J M G Le Clezio

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team. ~ Paul Newman

There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do. ~ Julianne Moore

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias. ~ Kim Him-chan

It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die. ~ Melina Marchetta

It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting. ~ Margaret Cho

I'm going to go where my heart takes me, even if it's a messy road. ~ Ha Myung-hee (writer), Said By Dr. Jung YoonDo, Doctors (닥터스)

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen. ~ Tablo

A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son. ~ Barbara Demick