Chow Yun Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government is going to win for sure. The opposition is in a total mess. So we just have to pay off the government, which is good for us. — Aravind Adiga

I think she might cry. In her way, she is. — Megan Abbott

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride. — Newton Gatambia

God cannot force you to accept Jesus Christ because God cannot force you to reject hell. Your choices are very limited; hell or paradise. Salvation is a choice. John 3:16 — Felix Wantang

Take a daily action towards the achievement of your desired goals. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Her skin was white as leprosy. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him. — Nicolas Cage

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

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors. — Chow Yun-Fat

Your body represents the Goddess and I want you to start thinking of your body as a separate, female entity that deserves your worship and respect. — Melissa Wells

New York City is one of the most vulnerable cities in the world to climate change, so I see Keystone as the central threat to New York. — Zephyr Teachout

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. — Chow Yun-Fat

Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real. — Chow Yun-Fat

Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn't serve
the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
what all heroes (including you) are here to do. — Martha Beck

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe. — Sophocles

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many. — Chow Yun-Fat

An actor is only merchandise. — Chow Yun-Fat

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

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. — 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 reactions. — Chow Yun-Fat

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

But then there were other times, like this, when he looked at Jem and saw no mark of illness on him, and wondered what it would be like in a world where Jem was not dying. And that did not bear thinking about either. It was a terrible black place in himself that the fear came from, a dark voice he could only silence with anger, risk, and pain. — Cassandra Clare

We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision. The nature of all other creatures is defined and restricted within laws which We have laid down; you, by contrast, impeded by no such restrictions, may, by your own free will, to whose custody We have assigned you, trace for yourself the lineaments of your own nature [ ... ]. We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer. It will be in your power to descend to the lower, brutish forms of life; you will be able, through your own decision, to rise again to the superior orders whose life is divine. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola