Chow Yun-Fat Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: May 18, 1955

Topics

LoveHeroRomanticI AmActionPlay

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

Robert Sheckley

DoingSellingWantRightSomething

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

PeopleIdeasWineSomeoneLookCopy

I was crashing with a boyfriend on his couch in Fort Green. At first, I was temping - insurance agencies, nonprofits - and then, in between temping, I was going on job interviews, and I could name 12 publications, some of which no longer exist, that didn't even call me back or interviewed me and had no interest.

Amy Chozick

JobMeGreenNameInsuranceBack

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

Rita Rudner

ManFightWarDieCountryGo

I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves.

Michelle Huneven

PeopleThinkDemonsBe NiceNice

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

KnowledgeGreatSinDifferenceDeal

I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.

Jazz Jennings

HappyPeopleSocietyFeelWantOwn

I actually have a pig collection in my cabin: all types of old wood hand-carved pigs that my mom started for me as a housewarming gift.

Johnny Iuzzini

MeMomGiftPigWoodCabin

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Clifford Geertz

MeaningSociallyConstructed

I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

Claire Denis

MusicMeNothingWatchingStarted

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

William Petersen

MeLawSomeoneRebelOddsAlways

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

Sean Penn

GoodMePoliticalDoingYouNews

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