Chow Yun-Fat

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

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. ”

An actor is only merchandise. ”

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

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”