As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
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.
Every single articulation he wanted as clear as possible. We had some problems but every sentence worked I think.
I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
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.
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.
It would be a lot of fun, sunglasses, toothpicks, guns - I could be 008 from Shanghai.
No, I would have advised them to use Andy Lau or Aaron Kwok, they'd be far more practical in a musical.
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.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
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.
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.
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.
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
You wait four hours between shots, not like wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am Hong Kong where every set is so quick and it's like one big family.
If I can associate with the people very, very gently very, very friendly every day I'm happpy. If I don't pay them respect I feel terrible inside" - From an interview with Chow Yun-Fat in the Documentary Chow Yun-Fat goes Hollywoo
Won Hong Kong Academy "Best Actor" Awards Three Times: A Better Tomorrow, 1987. City On Fire, 1988, All About Ah Long, 1990.
Won Taiwan Golden Horse "Best Actor" Awards Two Times: Hong Kong 1941, 1985. An Autumn's Tale, 1987.
Won Asian Pacific Festival "Best Actor" Award for Hong Kong 1941, 1985.
Chow Yun-Fat was born of the Hakkha (aka Ha Ka) race, an ethnic group from China that has moved from one region to another without taking up permanent residence since the ancient times. The Hakkha dialect is now the second most popular dialect in Taiwan.
CineAsia, the Asian Theatre Owners Convention, named Chow the Star of the Decade.
Turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix (1999).
Chosen one of 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
Before going to work on a movie each day, he goes to the nearest market and buys some fresh fruit.
Sponsors a lot of charity events such as,"National Wildlife" and many others.
Unusually tall by Chinese standards, he was often a head taller than his co-stars in his Hong Kong films, female or male.
Tri-lingual, speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
Credited as Chow Anderson in the Philippines in his earlier films.
He helped Andy Lau in his movie career, after it almost crashed when he refused to sign a contract with TVB, which made him blacklisted from Hong Kong Television.
He and Andy Lau made 4 movies together: Ying hung ho hon (1987), Gong woo ching (1987), Du shen (1989), and Dou hap (1991). They also made two TV-series together: "Yang ka cheung" (1986) and "Sou hat yi" (1982).
After a first unsuccessful marriage with a fellow Hong Kong star actress, he fell in love and re-married the daughter of one of the richest Chinese dynastic scions from Singapore.
Attempted suicide over the break-up after 5-year (1978-1983) romance with popular TV star Idy Chan.
Enjoys Photography. His elder sister also is a photographer.
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