An actor is only merchandise.

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...

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

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.

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

You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don’t think they printed too many.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

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.

For me, shooting films and breaking into Hollywood are just like gambling. For an actor, good scripts, appropriate roles and good film crews are not that easy to find. I am so lucky to have...

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

It’s been a long time since I had a Chinese-language movie show in the Mainland, but everyone still remembers me. Thanks for giving face.

As an actor we’re just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

Anna and the King