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born 1962 Hong Kong
Tony Leung Chiu-wai (born June 27, 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is considered one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognised actors.
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If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.
I had been making dramas for some time and suddenly I wanted to change, I wanted to have new feelings.
I think it’s incredible and I think I had a breakthrough in my acting career. I did something that I had never done before and to me, at least, it was quite successful.
I think moviemakers in every country are looking for ideas. It’s interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don’t buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.
Many times, I finished and asked my scene partner, 'Did you notice just now that one of my eyes was blank? Actually, I was thinking, what's my line?'
Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.
I don’t want to become more famous because I don’t have any privacy anymore and I hate that very much. Outside of work I just want to be an ordinary person, not to be recognised, not a monkey on the street when everybody is looking at you.