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Type: Actor Quotes Category: Chinese Actor Quotes Date of Birth: May 18, 1955 Nationality: Chinese Find on Amazon: Chow Yun-Fat Related Authors: Will Rogers Arnold Schwarzenegger Tim Robbins Ben Kingsley Theodore Bikel Jack Nicholson Bela Lugosi Orson Welles |
An actor is only merchandise.
Chow Yun-Fat As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. Chow Yun-Fat 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 I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act. Chow Yun-Fat 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 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 It would be a lot of fun, sunglasses, toothpicks, guns - I could be 008 from Shanghai. Chow Yun-Fat 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 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 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 This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors. Chow Yun-Fat 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 You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many. Chow Yun-Fat |
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