40 Quotes by Stephen Chow

I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

There's no common taste in this world.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

There’s no common taste in this world.

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it’s kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

Sometimes earning awards doesn’t matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can’t earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn’t like it, then it doesn’t matter how many awards you get.

From a director’s point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that’s fantastic for me.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn’t afford to pay for long-term learning.