Chow Yun-Fat movie quotes

“The Royal Family: Twenty three wives, forty two concubines, fifty eight offspring, and ten more on the way. Each one unique. Each one my hope for the future. I understand your surprise. Not as many as the Emperor of China, but he did not spend half of life in monastery. King making up for lost time.”

Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“Until now, Madame Leonowens, I did not understand the supposition man can be satisfied with only one woman.”
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“You know Chinese don't trust whites or cops, and you send me a white cop?”
Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen

- Danny Wallace: I like peaches.
- Nick Chen: Peaches is shit. Haven't you ever heard the song Sinatra sang? "Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum". Not a peach, a plum.
- Danny Wallace: I don't care if he pulled a raisin out of Sammy Davis's eye-socket, I prefer peaches.
Mark Wahlberg - Danny Wallace
Chow Yun-Fat - Nick Chen

“I hate in-house funerals. I write all the music each time. A cop dies, and I have to play a tune for him. I really don't want to do that for you.”

Chow Yun-Fat - Insp. "Tequila" Yuen

“Even if I was banished to the darkest place, my love will never let me be a lonely spirit.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“Real sharpness comes without effort.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“- Meg Coburn: You know, you could've saved yourself a lot of trouble just by doing that third job.
- John Lee: It was wrong. Mr. Wei was taking revenge. A man named Zedkov killed his son.
- Meg Coburn: Zedkov? Jesus Christ. You're getting yourself killed for a cop?
- John Lee: Not a cop. His son.”
Mira Sorvino - Meg Coburn
Chow Yun-Fat - John Lee

“- King Mongkut: l have decided to give self anniversary dinner and invite important English nobles and diplomats.
- Anna Leonowens: l don't understand.
- King Mongkut: French lndochina grows stronger and more aggressive. But if l improve our foreign intercourse with your queen's special envoy, French will think three times before trying to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna

“When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.”
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut

“- King Mongkut: I never danced with an Englishwoman before, mem.
- Anna Leonowens: Nor I with a king.”
Chow Yun-Fat - King Mongkut
Jodie Foster - Anna