Chow Yun-Fat quotes Born: 05/18/1955 Country: hong_kong

• As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. (Chow Yun-Fat) [provide/services]
• 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) [provide/services/love]
• Every single articulation he wanted as clear as possible. We had some problems but every sentence worked I think. (Chow Yun-Fat) [think]
• I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act. (Chow Yun-Fat) [care/food]
• 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) [dialogue/language/english]
• 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) [think/action/love/novel]
• It would be a lot of fun, sunglasses, toothpicks, guns - I could be 008 from Shanghai. (Chow Yun-Fat)
• 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) [more/]
• 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) [words]
• 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) [english/words/strange]
• 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) [mother/language]
• This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors. (Chow Yun-Fat) [actors]
• Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. (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) [care/food]
• You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many. (Chow Yun-Fat) [people/think]
• 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) [family]
• Yun-fat feels you just have to cooperate. (Chow Yun-Fat)
• As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. Chow Yun-Fat (Chow Yun-Fat)

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