Chow Yun-Fat famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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
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As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors
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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
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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
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Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
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I don't like muscles too much. Flexibility and a relaxed look are more important.
-- Chow Yun-Fat
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There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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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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Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
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The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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