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Before stepping into the heady world of movies, Tony Leung worked in a glass showroom at a Hong Kong shopping center.

"I was a salesman," he recalls with a barely-audible laugh. "I was selling home appliances like air-conditioners. Can you believe that?"

Was he any good at persuading the man in the street?

"I was terrible I could not sell anything. And I remember I was so unhappy with my job at that time."

With his ruffled hair and a devilishly handsome smile that breaks out oh-so-infrequently, Leung's shy-boy persona can sell almost anything today -- from cop thrillers to art movies -- when magnified on the big screen.

-Singapore Interview 1998