"We Northerners eat noodles, you know, and we say, 'Three tenths is the noodles and seven tenths the seasoning.' Well, stage presence is 'three-tenths singing and seven-tenths looks,'" he said.
「咱們北方人吃麵食，說『三分面，七分碼（配料）』，演員上台的氣勢，實則也是『三分唱料，七分扮相』」，他說，歷來好演員多半是「祖師爺賞飯吃」，天生醒眼。