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
An actor is only merchandise.
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It's been a long time since I had a Chinese-language movie show in the Mainland, but everyone still remembers me. Thanks for giving face.
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Anna and the King
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For me, shooting films and breaking into Hollywood are just like gambling. For an actor, good scripts, appropriate roles and good film crews are not that easy to find. I am so lucky to have had so many chances.
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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.
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Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.
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Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
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You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
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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.
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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.
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