Michelle Yeoh Quotes

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Michelle Yeoh

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 6, 1962

When a movie becomes very successful, it's automatic that people will start thinking a sequel, a prequel, a quel-quel.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.

Michelle Yeoh

There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.

Michelle Yeoh

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Michelle Yeoh

As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.

Michelle Yeoh

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

Michelle Yeoh

For an actress, everything is always fine - you are looked after, you have your trailer, and everything provided. But the crew are the ones out there in the wilds all the time, hours before and after us.

Michelle Yeoh

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.

Michelle Yeoh

You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, 'That plus that equals success.'

Michelle Yeoh

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

Michelle Yeoh

The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

Michelle Yeoh

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

Michelle Yeoh

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.

Michelle Yeoh

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

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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.

Michelle Yeoh

San Suu's story will always involve politics, but the essence is the love story.

Michelle Yeoh

Martial arts is something you can learn or pick up and think you could do really well.

Michelle Yeoh

Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That's where it's coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing.

Michelle Yeoh