Michelle Yeoh Quotes

Learning how to walk in a kimono was an art form in itself - if you didn`t learn to do it properly it was like dragging a dead cat across the floor! We had to walk with a piece of paper between your knees and a tea tray balanced on your head.

I prefer to be kicked four or five times well, you know, hard, than twenty or twenty five times not so good...

We tried really hard to get things right, to honor and respect the tradition of the geisha,

In Asia, we constantly play Koreans, Malay, Chinese. We do not question that, as you do not question an Englishman playing an American or a German.

We tried really hard to get things right, to honor and respect the tradition of the geisha.

It`s tough on a different level. This is not a physical movie, in that sense, but I think the mental torture of this movie was much harder. I`d rather run on rooftops; that`s easy to do.

They have an amazing team ... I`ve wanted to work with these people for a long while.

The reason why I decided to wait two years after the Bond movie, and to work with Ang Lee in a martial arts movie, is because I really believe that this genre deserves more respect and dignity than it`s ever been given. Before, people saw it as a fairy tale; they felt they could take it easy. But it shouldn`t be about that. It`s so steeped in our culture, it should have more depth to it. It`s never easy to find that balance, when it`s such a magical type of film, to make you accept our soaring to the skies... it was a risk, but when we did this movie, it was for a Western audience.

Tomorrow Never Dies.

Doing a movie like `Memoirs` was good in the sense that it tickled me into thinking, `Well, maybe I have to be a little more feminine.` But after two hours of that, I said, `Fine, OK, I did that,`

All of us understand we are here and our movie has done exceedingly well.

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it`s like `what?`. You carry on as who you are.

There are so many elements in the movie industry that I am just beginning to learn about. As an actor you are well-protected.

We had to learn in just six weeks what geishas spend their whole lives learning. There were seven torture rooms, ... But we were lucky that Kaori and Ken were there to keep an eye on us to make sure we were doing it properly. Please forgive us if we did anything wrong.