Chow Yun Fat Quotes

• As an actor we’re just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

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• An actor is only merchandise.

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• In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.

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• That’s so different in Hong Kong when I’m using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

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• I couldn’t care less about actors’ trailers and food on sets and stuff like that – I just want to act.

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• Some of the substance of English words, I just don’t understand at all because the culture’s so strange to me.

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• This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

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• Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

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• You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don’t think they printed too many.

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Chow Yun Fat (9)

Birth:	18th May, 1955
Nationality:	Hong Konger
Profession:	Actor

About

Chow Yun Fat was born in Lamma Island, Hong Kong. He is a Hong Konger actor. He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor in Taiwan. In 2014, Chow was the second-highest earning actor in Hong Kong, earning 170 million HKD. On June 26, 2008, Chow released his first photo collection in Hong Kong, which includes pictures taken on the sets of his films. Chow has appeared in over 121 films and 24 television series.

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