CHOW YUN-FAT

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

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.

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.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

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.

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.

An actor is only merchandise.

An actor is only merchandise.

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.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

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.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

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.

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.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.