"When I become a character in a movie or drama … I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my own life. I feel ecstasy in those moments and it’s what keeps me going as an actor. It’s not about the money, it’s not about the honor."
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"Gong Yoo on becoming South Korea’s leading man" in CNN (30 August 2017)
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