Maggie Cheung Net Worth

Maggie Cheung's Quotes

• No matter where I'm going, I feel like I'm leaving something behind. Every time I get on a plane, I cry. The flight attendants on Cathay Pacific must think I'm mad.
• ...you experience a lot more pain than normal people, your mom dies, your dad dies, your boyfriend chucks you, you live in the street, and you're really going through these emotions. You're trying to know what it feels like to watch a man die in front of you, as if you've really lived it. Once that division is gone, it gets blurry, you look back at a shoot and think, was I really that sad because in the film my boyfriend didn't like me -- or was it something else, something real? [on being an actress]
• If I was drinking something [in my house], they said, 'Oh, she got dumped, she's so miserable she's turning to drink'. Or if my mother and sister came over, they said, 'She's so miserable she needs her family to support her through this hard time.'" [on her experience with the Hong Kong paparazzi]
• Words like 'fabulous,' 'wonderful,' 'great,' 'absolutely gorgeous,' they don't exist in Cantonese. It's good, or it's O.K. That's it. It's very blunt, Cantonese. I appreciate that there are no fake words, but it's hard to switch channels, sometimes, after I've spent time in France. I'm just learning to use more generous words myself, but you know, 'gorgeous,' I just can't go to that extreme.
• It was heaven. We were in Los Angeles. And we could go anywhere. No one had any idea who I was.

Interesting Facts about Maggie Cheung

1. Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival in 1997.
2. First runner-up and Miss Photogenic in Miss Hong Kong and a semi-finalist in Miss World. [1983]
3. Guest model of Hermès during Paris Fashion Week in March 1998.
4. Spokesperson of LUX shampoo in mid-late 1990's in Greater China.
5. Ruan Ling Yu (1991) was turning point in her career. Before this film was made, she was only offered the roles of beautiful Asian women in Western films.
6. Olivier Assayas wrote the characters of Maggie Cheung (in Irma Vep (1996)) and Emily Wang (in Clean (2004)) specifically with her in mind.
7. The first Chinese actress ever to win the Best Actress award at the Berlin International Film Festival (1992 - for Ruan Ling Yu (1991)) and Cannes Film Festival (2004 - for Clean (2004)).
8. Her parents are Shanghainese. While she cannot speak the dialect, she understands it.
9. In Hong Kong, she has been handed every role she has played since she was 18 without an audition.
10. Wanted to be a hairdresser as a child.
11. Was offered a role in X-Men 2 (2003) but turned it down because "If I start making films like that, they won't be proud. I'd feel like I was cheating. And I don't want half the world, we have 1.3 billion people in China, to know I'm cheating. That matters to me. I have more pride than that."
12. Learned French for her role in Augustin, roi du kung-fu (1999).
13. Grew up in Bromley, Kent, when she lived in the UK.
14. Signed her divorce paper with Olivier Assayas on the set of Clean (2004) which was directed by her ex-husband.
15. She and Tony Chiu-Wai Leung made 7 movies together: 2046 (2004), Ah Fei jing juen (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Fa yeung nin wah (2000), Ho moon yeh yin (1991), Se diu ying hung: Dung sing sai jau (1993), and Hero (2002). They also starred together in a short-lived TV-series: San jaat si hing (1984).
16. Acted in 6 movies with Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia, whom she considered her idol and an actress she respected.
17. She was a finalist to star in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).
18. Declined lead role in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) because of racial sensitivity between the Japanese and the Chinese, due to WWII.
19. Although an icon of Asian cinema, she is actually a European with extended residence in Hong Kong.
20. Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1999.