What they say

An adventurer at heart?

'Chollywood' goes arty

Chinese film a hit at Berlin Festival

LING CHI-LING, Taiwan actress who appeared in 2011's Love on Credit with Liao

I think Liao Fan got the Berlin award a bit too early in his life. But that's good, and it means now he can fool around artistically and do whatever takes his fancy.

MENG JINGHUI, stage director who employed Liao in several of his productions, most notably Rhinoceros in Love

With a bullet in his bone, he limps on the street, displaying a stamina and an intelligence that are almost superhuman. Underneath the seemingly fragile physique lies a heart that's so rebellious it puts him on the most wanted list. He seems to have been born to suffer for mankind. He has a saintly quality that makes the ordinary extraordinary.

A FEMALE FAN, an online description about Liao's character in the television drama Line Between Life and Death