Chow Yun-Fat Net Worth

Chow Yun-Fat's Quotes

• 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.
• If I can associate with the people very, very gently very, very friendly every day I'm happpy. If I don't pay them respect I feel terrible inside" - From an interview with Chow Yun-Fat in the Documentary Chow Yun-Fat goes Hollywood
• As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.
• 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.
• [on his Mandarin pronunciation in Wo hu cang long (2000)] It's awful. The first day I had to do 28 takes simply because of the language problem. That's never happened before in my life. It put me under a lot of pressure. There was a lot of dialogue in this film, more than I've ever had to speak before. It was like speaking Shakespeare.

Interesting Facts about Chow Yun-Fat

1. Won Hong Kong's Academy "Best Actor" Awards Three Times: A Better Tomorrow, 1987. City On Fire, 1988, All About Ah Long, 1990.
2. Won Taiwan's Golden Horse "Best Actor" Awards Two Times: Hong Kong 1941,1985. An Autumn's Tale, 1987.
3. Won Asian Pacific Festival "Best Actor" Award for Hong Kong 1941, 1985.
4. Chow Yun-Fat was born of the Hakkha (aka Ha Ka) race, an ethnic group from China that has moved from one region to another without taking up permanent residence since the ancient times. The Hakkha dialect is now the second most popular dialect in Taiwan.
5. CineAsia, the Asian Theatre Owners Convention, named Chow the Star of the Decade.
6. Turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix (1999).
7. Chosen one of 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine in 2002.
8. Before going to work on a movie each day, he goes to the nearest market and buys some fresh fruit.
9. Sponsors a lot of charity events such as "National Wildlife" and many others.
10. Unusually tall by Chinese standards, he was often a head taller than his co-stars in his Hong Kong films, female or male.
11. Tri-lingual, speaking Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
12. Credited as Chow Anderson in the Philippines in his earlier films.
13. He helped Andy Lau in his movie career, after it almost crashed when he refused to sign a contract with TVB, which made him blacklisted from Hong Kong Television.
14. He and Andy Lau made 4 movies together: Ying hung ho hon (1987), Gong woo ching (1987), Do san (1989), and Dou hap (1990). They also made two TV-series together: Yang ka cheung (1986) and Sou hat yi (1982).
15. After a first unsuccessful marriage with a fellow Hong Kong star actress, he fell in love and re-married the daughter of one of the richest Chinese dynastic scions from Singapore.
16. Attempted suicide over the break-up after 5-year (1978-1983) romance with popular TV star Idy Chan.
17. Enjoys photography. His elder sister also is a photographer.
18. On 26 June 2008, Chow released his first photo collection in Hong Kong, which includes pictures taken on the sets of his films. Proceeds from the book's sales were donated to Sichuan earthquake victims. Published by Louis Vuitton, the books were sold in Vuitton's Hong Kong and Paris stores.
19. He narrowly avoided being incinerated while filming the explosive climax of Hard Boiled (1992).
20. He was originally going to be play Luke in Dip huet gai tau (1990), as he was really impressed with the script but John Woo had told him that his character was not the essential character of the story (though a pivotal one nonetheless) and that it might not have complimented his leading man status as it was really a supporting role (or more precisely - fourth leading role).