Quotes by Chow Yun-Fat

About Chow Yun-Fat:

Donald Chow Yun-fat is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Hard Boiled; and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. 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.
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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.

Chow Yun-Fat

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.

Chow Yun-Fat

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...

Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.

Chow Yun-Fat

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

Chow Yun-Fat

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

Chow Yun-Fat

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

Chow Yun-Fat

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.

Chow Yun-Fat

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

Chow Yun-Fat

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

Chow Yun-Fat

An actor is only merchandise.

Chow Yun-Fat

Author Bio

  • NameChow Yun-Fat
  • DescriptionHong Kong actor
  • AliasesZhou Runfa
  • BornMay 18, 1955
  • CountryPeople's Republic Of China
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsSilver Bauhinia Star