Chow Yun-Fat quotes
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“Working in front of the camera keeps me alive”
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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”
-- Chow Yun-FatSource : "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.
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“As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors”
-- Chow Yun-FatSource : "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. December 27, 1999.
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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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“Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me”
-- Chow Yun-FatSource : "'Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". TIME Asia interview, www.cnn.com. December 27, 1999.
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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”
-- Chow Yun-FatSource : "Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". Interview with Stephen Short, content.time.com. June, 2003.
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“Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.”
-- Chow Yun-FatSource : "Fictional character: Master Li Mu Bai". "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", www.imdb.com. 2000.
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“I don't like muscles too much. Flexibility and a relaxed look are more important.”
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“This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.”
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“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”
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“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”
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Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “Now I Know”, p.34, Random House
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