Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

- Chow Yun-Fat

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

- Chow Yun-Fat

I don't like muscles too much. Flexibility and a relaxed look are more important.

- Chow Yun-Fat

An actor is only merchandise.

- Chow Yun-Fat

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

- Chow Yun-Fat

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.

- Chow Yun-Fat

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 dr…

- Chow Yun-Fat

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 reac…

- Chow Yun-Fat

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

- Chow Yun-Fat