Michelle Yeoh Quotes

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Michelle Yeoh

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 6, 1962

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.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

I love action films, and to be able to put together 'Silver Hawk' was so exciting.

Michelle Yeoh

Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.

Michelle Yeoh

When you're a teenager, you could do a lot more crazy things, and your body recovers faster.

Michelle Yeoh

Every time I choose to do a movie, I make the decision because of what I think I can learn from it.

Michelle Yeoh

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

Michelle Yeoh

Sometimes when I'm on the phone, someone will say, 'Yes, Mr. Yeoh.' And I'm thinking, 'I'm not Mr. Yeoh, man.'

Michelle Yeoh

Why do we have 'Transformers 5 or 6?' Because young kids will go and see it four or five times.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

I always thought of myself as James Bond.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

In Europe and America, you never see a director pick up a camera. They all sit behind monitors.

Michelle Yeoh

I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

I've taken this year to concentrate fully on the promotion of 'The Lady.' This movie has been so meaningful; until we have premiered in every part of the world and encouraged as many people as possible to shine the spotlight on the Burmese people and Daw Suu, I will not have a next project.

Michelle Yeoh

It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.

Michelle Yeoh

I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

You have to have integrity.

Michelle Yeoh