Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Quotes

I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.

Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.

I'm happy that the kind of films I'm doing right now is reaching a wider audience, and I'm looking forward to direct Hindi films as well.

'Buguri' is a romantic film, and I play Ganesh's love interest. Initially, I had just hoped to do one Kannada film since I'm a Kannadiga. Now, I'm even learning to converse in Kannada.

There were so many more opportunities in K-pop for a young Asian American singer.

I love the fact that Bollywood is getting so much more globalised. Instead of us looking out there, people are looking to India and coming to us!

It wasn't until I worked on 'Crazy Rich Asians' that I all of a sudden have this Asian crew of friends that I became super close with.

The very fact that I got to work with Akshay Kumar was special.

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.

I am proud to be a first-generation Chinese-American in the sport of figure skating.

I always feel like people misunderstand the difference between an Asian story and an Asian-American story. That's completely different, too. I have friends who grew up in Asia, and our experiences are so different. Even though we might look the same, I feel like being Asian and then being Asian-American is completely different.

I've never seen a boy band that had members who look like us - kids of color from all over the world - and met on the Internet.

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

I want to work with Steven Spielberg... whether it is a small role or big in a Hollywood movie, it will be a lifetime experience for me. It will be a dream come true for me. And I always believe that anything can happen in life.

Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.

It was a wonderful experience working with Nagarjuna sir. I mean, I never expected this to happen. For me, who watched his films standing in a queue at theatres, and now sharing the screen with him is a huge thing.

It's important to me to reach deep into the community and promote Latino artists.

When I found out that I'm playing Nagini, I thought it was meaningful because it's an important character in the 'Harry Potter' series. 'Harry Potter' is a franchise film with many Caucasian actors, so I thought many Korean viewers would be happy.

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).

I've never thought about doing international films. But if I get something exciting, I might take it up. Everything depends on what comes my way.