Chow Yun Quotes

#1. When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

John Woo

#2. CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.

Roger Ebert

#3. We don't actually want our young people to encounter the mysteries of love anyway; best to keep them preoccupied with the tedium of lust instead. The

Anthony Esolen

#4. 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.

Chow Yun-Fat

#5. When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride - thwarted pride.

Edward T. Welch

#6. An actor is only merchandise.

Chow Yun-Fat

#7. I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this race is right now for a lot Republicans. He said, "Nobody in Iowa wants [Donald]Trump for president. But everybody in Iowa wants somebody like Trump for president." That's what you need.

Dalia Mogahed

#8. There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

John Cage

#9. 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

#10. I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

Nik Wallenda

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

Chow Yun-Fat

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

Chow Yun-Fat

#13. You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.

Chow Yun-Fat

#14. Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

Chow Yun-Fat

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

Chow Yun-Fat

#16. The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

William Sloane Coffin

#17. 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

#18. Epictetus, the pagan philosopher, proved in his life the truth of his own words - "A man can be happy without wealth, without family, without office or honor, without health, without anything that the world seeks after.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Chow Yun-Fat

#20. I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.

Daniel Johnston

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

Chow Yun-Fat

#22. It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

Marcus Sedgwick

#24. It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.

Plautus