Michelle Yeoh Quotes

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Michelle Yeoh

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 6, 1962

When men have a smile on their faces, that does a lot for me.

Michelle Yeoh

It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

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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.

Michelle Yeoh

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

Michelle Yeoh

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

Michelle Yeoh

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

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In many ways, I feel I'm still as physically fit as I was 20 years ago because I've always been athletic.

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We have to make movies where we do not think this is for the American market or this is for the Chinese market. We have to make a good movie that anyone would just want to sit down and watch because love, language, culture transcend everything.

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I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

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I believe all of us want to do good for our country.

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As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

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Playing a sinner is very liberating!

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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.'

Michelle Yeoh

Movies cater to what the audiences want.

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I don't plan to go out and do action or not do action.

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As an actor, you are always looking for roles that will challenge you, and when I came upon Aung San Suu Kyi, it wasn't just about that but also about stepping into the shoes of someone who means so much to millions of people.

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I grew up in Malaysia, and Bollywood is really big there. As a result, I've grown up watching a lot of Hindi movies.

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

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