You have to have integrity.

Jackie Chan is like a big bro to me.

Playing a sinner is very liberating!

Movies cater to what the audiences want.

I always thought of myself as James Bond.

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

I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.

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

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

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

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.

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

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

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

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

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

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

I don't like cutting my hair. I did that once, and my mum thought I was a boy.

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

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

Let's empower men and help them take a stand to stop acts of violence against women.

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

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

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

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

This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.

My mother is a very big cinema buff, so as a kid, we watched a lot of Indian and Malay films.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

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

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

I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.

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

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

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.

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.

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