Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-fat, SBS, previously known as Donald Chow, is a Hong Kong actor. He is best known in Asia for his collaborations with filmmaker John Woo in the heroic bloodshed-genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer and Hard Boiled; and in the West for his roles as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He mainly plays in dramatic films and has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 May 1955
CityHong Kong, China
CountryChina
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors
I don't like muscles too much. Flexibility and a relaxed look are more important.
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me
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
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
Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
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
An actor is only merchandise.