Chow Yun-Fat Quotes

I like everything about acting.

People really don't understand what actors do.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

As an actor, I just want to keep mixing it up.

I wanted to be an actor, like, so, so bad. I took acting classes, I auditioned for Disney, and then I realized how nervous I got with remembering lines.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.