Chow Yun-Fat movie quotes

“- Nick Chen: Beef intestine noodle?
- Danny Wallace: Uh, no.
- Nick Chen: You wanna be Chinese, you gotta eat the gross stuff.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen
Mark Wahlberg - Danny Wallace

“As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.”
Chow Yun-Fat

“- King Mongkut: You do not look sufficient of age for scientific teaching. How many years have you?
- Anna Leonowens: Enough to know that age and wisdom do not necessarily go hand in hand, Your Majesty.”
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna

“Like most things, I am nothing.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“You don't change Chinatown, it changes you.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen

“- Anna Leonowens: You have the power to lead your people...
- King Mongkut: Now is not the time to change the way that things are done!
- Anna Leonowens: Well, if not now, then when? How many more people must die so that you might save face?”
Jodie Foster - Anna
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“Most things go in and out of style, that is with the exception of war of course.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen

“- John Lee: My father taught me how to shoot.
- Meg Coburn: Playing catch is so impersonal.”
Chow Yun-Fat - John Lee
Mira Sorvino - Meg Coburn

- Insp. "Tequila" Yuen: What's with all these paper cranes? You bored? Maybe you feel lonelyhere?
- Alan: You know, I've always hated making cranes. I make one each time I kill somebody. How about it, shall I make you one?
- Insp. "Tequila" Yuen: No thanks. And if you'll get killed, who'll make yours?
Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Alan

“- Danny Wallace: How do I know I can trust you?
- Nick Chen: You don't.”
Mark Wahlberg - Danny Wallace
Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen

“No growth without assistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“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.”
Chow Yun-Fat

“Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.”
Chow Yun-Fat

“An actor is only merchandise.”
Chow Yun-Fat

“Give yourself up and find yourself again.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“- John Lee: He's my patron.
- Meg Coburn: Patron?
- John Lee: He made it possible for me to come here.
- Meg Coburn: What does he, sponsor you to play the violin?
- John Lee: ... in exchange for... services.
- Meg Coburn: What a nice way of saying you kill people.”

Chow Yun-Fat - John Lee
Mira Sorvino - Meg Coburn

“- Anna Leonowens: I would like to know why, if science can unravel something as beautiful as music... why it cannot posit a solution for a schoolteacher and a king.
- King Mongkut: The manner in which people might understand such new possibilities is also process of evolution.
- Anna Leonowens: Everything in Siam has its own time.”

Jodie Foster - Anna
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“You're full of shit, you know that? There's a toilet over there.”

Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen

“- The Kralahome, Prime Minister: Your Majesty, I believe there has been enough insult caused by this woman who believes herself to be the equal of a man.
- King Mongkut: Not the equal of a man, Chao Phya. The equal of a King.”
Syed Alwi - The Kralahome
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

- Insp. "Tequila" Yuen: Which year did you graduate? Who was your teacher?
- Alan: Are you testing me?
- Insp. "Tequila" Yuen: I'd just like to ask your teach how he managed to produce such a stubborncop.
Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai - Alan

“I will be there in your dreams, as you will be in mine.”

Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“- John Lee: You're safer with me.
- Meg Coburn: Is it my perfume or something? Because you are the second guy today to assume I need, want or will accept help. I won't.
- John Lee: It's not an option.”
Chow Yun-Fat - John Lee
Mira Sorvino - Meg Coburn

“- Anna Leonowens: My mind has taken me down many roads of late. All of which lead absolutely nowhere. What would Buddha say of that?
- King Mongkut: That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations.”
Jodie Foster - Anna
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say: there is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“- King Mongkut: Gazing at the moon?
- Anna Leonowens: Yes, it is beautiful.
- King Mongkut: As the sun rises, she will surrender the night, but she is always with him, even when he cannot see her.
- Anna Leonowens: It must be a great comfort to him.”
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna