Chow Yun-Fat Quotations

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act

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

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

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

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

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

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.

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

An actor is only merchandise.

I don't like muscles too much. Flexibility and a relaxed look are more important.

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

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

It's been a long time since I had a Chinese-language movie show in the Mainland, but everyone still remembers me. Thanks for giving face.