Login | Register Share:
  Guess quote | Authors | Isles | Contacts
Chow Yun-Fat [1955-0] Chinese
Rank: 103
Actor


Chow Yun-fat, SBS, previously known as Donald Chow, 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.

Romantic



QuoteTagsRank
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.
101
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
102
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
103
This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.
104
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
105
An actor is only merchandise.
106
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.
107
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. Romantic
108
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
109
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.
110
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.
111

The script ran 0.003 seconds.