A biography for Chow Yun-Fathasn’t been written yet.
“Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.”
“You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.”