Michelle Yeoh Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Michelle Yeoh on Wise Famous Quotes.
It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.
I grew up in Malaysia, and Bollywood is really big there. As a result, I've grown up watching a lot of Hindi movies.
There might never be another 'Crouching Tiger.' There might be something that's even better than 'Crouching Tiger.'
In one take, I had to do 24 combat sequences, which is hard. It makes you think, 'I'd better get on my toes again.'
Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.
If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light, but when they take off their shoes, it's all bloody.
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.
India is a great talent pool of actors. I see Freida Pinto making it big in Hollywood, and I am sure many others can also make it.
I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.
Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.
It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.
To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.
I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.
When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.
Sometimes when I'm on the phone, someone will say, 'Yes, Mr. Yeoh.' And I'm thinking, 'I'm not Mr. Yeoh, man.'
In many ways, I feel I'm still as physically fit as I was 20 years ago because I've always been athletic.
On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.
I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.
The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.
When a movie becomes very successful, it's automatic that people will start thinking a sequel, a prequel, a quel-quel.
I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.
For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.
It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.
For me, the director is the most important thing. He is steering the boat. If you don't trust him, you won't be able to give him your all.
They won't take you seriously because you are a girl. These guys had to understand that you are just as tough as them, and you have to take them on.
Unfortunately, many parents reject helmets for their kids out of a mistaken perception that helmets are unsafe for children.
It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.
The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.
I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.