Michelle Yeoh
Movies cater to what the audiences want.Collection: Movies
Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.Collection: Great
When men have a smile on their faces, that does a lot for me.Collection: Smile
I grew up in Malaysia, and Bollywood is really big there. As a result, I've grown up watching a lot of Hindi movies.Collection: Movies
My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.Collection: Business
Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.Collection: Beauty
I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.Collection: Strength
This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.Collection: Respect
It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.
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 thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.
I'm not a fashion victim, and I don't closely follow trends. I dress the way I feel comfortable because, at the end of the day, you have to be comfortable.
As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
When someone acknowledges you for something that they think about you, it's a huge compliment.
Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.
When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.
I have very supportive parents who said, 'Go and do what you want to do. Home is always here for you, and if you don't like it out there, come back. You can always do something different.' So when you have an option like that, you are able to choose roles or choose the things you want to be in.
You have to have integrity.
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.
If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.
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.
Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.
Acting is not just impersonating your character.
Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.
To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.
There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put $115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.
I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.
I always thought of myself as James Bond.
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.
Let's empower men and help them take a stand to stop acts of violence against women.
I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.
On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.
Playing a sinner is very liberating!
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.
My mother is a very big cinema buff, so as a kid, we watched a lot of Indian and Malay films.
If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.
When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.
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.
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.
My grandmother had flawless skin just from using basic skincare - an old herbal remedy in the form of a white powder and cream. I don't actually know what was in it because when you're young, you're not interested in skincare, and I didn't want to walk around the house with a white face.
I don't like cutting my hair. I did that once, and my mum thought I was a boy.
We always see Aung San as a strong, tough woman. There are two stories running in parallel. You see the contradictions between the East and the West, and you see someone who does mundane and normal things - someone who's supposed to be a housewife - and then someone who's become important and imprisoned.
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.
I stretch and do my squats when I brush my teeth.
When a movie becomes very successful, it's automatic that people will start thinking a sequel, a prequel, a quel-quel.
As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.
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.
The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.
There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.
When you love someone, you don't try to change them.