Quotes from Michelle Yeoh

When someone acknowledges you for something that they think about you, it's a huge compliment.

As an actress, you know there are limitations on what you can do creatively.

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.

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.

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.

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

I stretch and do my squats when I brush my teeth.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

I gathered as much reading material about Aung San Suu Kyi and about Burma as I could. And I read every article and every book she had written. I also had 200 hours of footage of her to watch. I tried to discover who were her heroes and where he desire and strength to pursue democracy in a non-violent fashion came from.

I'm terrible on the phone. I just text my friends and family and say, 'Hey, I'm in town.'

Raising awareness for Nepal was and still is an important role for me.

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.

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.

When it is real person, especially who means so much to millions of people, you have an obligation, you cannot take liberties, you cannot pretend to know. But we are telling the love story of Michael Aris and his wife, the story of a beautiful, lush country, and the emotions of a mother.

I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.

'Crouching Tiger,' of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.

There might never be another 'Crouching Tiger.' There might be something that's even better than 'Crouching Tiger.'

I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there.

Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.