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Tony Leung Chiu-wai is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is one of Asia's most successful and internationally recognized actors. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor for his performance in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love. He was named by CNN as one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time".Leung is known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films, including Chungking Express , Happy Together , In the Mood for Love , 2046 , and The Grandmaster . He also appeared in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films: A City of Sadness , Cyclo and Lust, Caution , directed by Ang Lee. Leung also starred in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero , the cult classic Hard Boiled , and box office hits Infernal Affairs and Red Cliff . He later came to prominence in Hollywood with his role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings .Leung has an extensive list of awards that he has won in a career that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also a seven-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as "undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad and diverse filmography." Wikipedia  

✵ 27. June 1962
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Famous Tony Leung Quotes

“If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.”

Tony Leung

"'It never gets any easier'" in The Guardian (23 February 2004) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/feb/23/1

“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.”

Tony Leung

"'It never gets any easier'" in The Guardian (23 February 2004) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/feb/23/1

“If I'm not working, I'll go on my boat and have a few drinks. Most of my friends are outside the movie business. It's too much to mix with other celebrities. When I go out I prefer no one talk about movies. I'd rather talk about waterskiing, the sea, beaches, seafood...”

Tony Leung

"I Told Kar-wai I Couldn't Move, Couldn't Breathe" in TIME Asia (11 October 2000) http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/features/interviews/2000/10/11/int.tony_leung.html

“I had been making dramas for some time and suddenly I wanted to change, I wanted to have new feelings.”

Tony Leung

"Actor Tony Leung is back after three-year break from cinema" in The Straits Times (24 December 2016) https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/actor-tony-leung-is-back-after-three-year-break-from-cinema

“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.”

Tony Leung

"Lust, Caution – Tony Leung interview" (2007) https://tonyleung.info/tony/?p=237

“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.”

Tony Leung

"Lust, Caution – Tony Leung interview" (2007) https://tonyleung.info/tony/?p=237

“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.”

Tony Leung

"Lust, Caution – Tony Leung interview" (2007) https://tonyleung.info/tony/?p=237

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