“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

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