My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He’s Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. – Jason Scott Lee
I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts. – JWoww
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student’s education. – Ken Robinson
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I’m not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn’t too rigorous or challenging. – Moby
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general. – Lara St. John
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. – Jacques-Louis David
I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13. – Katheryn Winnick
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries – the arts and humanities. – Lisa Randall
The older I get, I’m really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society. – Rhys Ifans
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. – Ovid
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of ‘thinker’, with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won’t really do. – Robert Webb
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. – Seamus Heaney
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. – Rita Dove
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn’t make a profit, it’s invalid, and art doesn’t make a profit in that sense. – Peter Maxwell Davies
I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in ‘A Chorus Line.’ – Robin Wright
I write because I write – as anyone in the arts does. You’re a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You’re a writer because this is what you do. – Richard Price
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. – Rod Taylor
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they’re wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts. – Richard Eyre
A lot of these guys in ‘Fight Master’ will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time. – Randy Couture
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. – Rita Dove
I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors. – O. R. Melling
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received. – Rudolf Arnheim