Quote: As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Every single articulation he wanted as clear as possible. We had some problems but every sentence worked I think. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: I was lucky that Andy Tennant changed a lot of the dialogue. The original draft had language the way Rex Harrison speaks, talking in old Oxford English, it was almost like Shakespeare, but Andy modernized it. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: 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]
Quote: It would be a lot of fun, sunglasses, toothpicks, guns - I could be 008 from Shanghai. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: No, I would have advised them to use Andy Lau or Aaron Kwok, they'd be far more practical in a musical. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: She kept telling me simpler ways to say words in scenes and that made things a lot quicker. Off and on camera she was terrific in every way. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: 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]
Quote: You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: You wait four hours between shots, not like wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am Hong Kong where every set is so quick and it's like one big family. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: Yun-fat feels you just have to cooperate. [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
Chow Yun-Fat [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: 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]
Quote: As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Working in front of the camera keeps me alive [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act [Chow Yun-Fat]
Quote: Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real. [Chow Yun-Fat]