Anecdotes

Once a side kick of Chow Yun-Fat. They made 4 movies together: Ying hung ho hon (1987), Gong woo ching (1987), Do san (1989) and Dou hap (1990). They also made two TV series together: Yang ka cheung (1985) and Sou hat yi (1982).

Is skilled in the Chinese calligraphy.

Has the most awards won by a male Cantonese pop artist, as of April 2000 he had 292 awards.

Awarded "No. 1 Box-office Actor 1985-2005" of Hong Kong, yielding a total box office of HKD 1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years.

He was one of the "5 Tigers" in TVB with Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Felix Wong, Michael Kiu Wai Miu, and Kent Tong in the 1980s.

Started career as a TV actor.

Named as "Four Kings" of Hong Kong pop-music industry with Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok in the early 90s.

(As of 2003) Since 1992 he has appeared in concert 179 times.

Awarded honorary fellow member by the Hongkong Academy of Performing Arts (HKAPA). Past recipients of the honor include Chow Yun-Fat, John Woo and 'Anthony Wong (IX)'.

Lau was awarded the Asian Filmmaker of the Year in the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival in Busan (formerly Pusan), Korea. He received the award after initiating a project Focus First Cuts to finance films from fledging Asian directors. One of the 6 films, the black comedy Feng kuang de shi tou (2006) (aka Crazy Stone), has gone on to become to date the second top-grossing film in China this year.