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"As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."

"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."

"Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess."
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"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."

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

"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."

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