Acting is not just impersonating your character.

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Michelle Yeoh

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

- Michelle Yeoh

Before you get into the mind, you have to inhabit the physicality. Body language is a great way of speaking.

- Michelle Yeoh

Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

- 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

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

- Michelle Yeoh

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

- Michelle Yeoh

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.

- Michelle Yeoh

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

- Michelle Yeoh

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

- Michelle Yeoh

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.

- Michelle Yeoh

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

- Michelle Yeoh

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

- Michelle Yeoh

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

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.

- Michelle Yeoh

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.

- Michelle Yeoh