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"An actor is only merchandise."
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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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"This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors."
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"An actor is only merchandise."
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"You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many."
People

"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."
Love

"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."
Mother

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

"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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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb."
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"I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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