Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Michelle Yeoh) Quotes
It's always important to understand as filmmakers that we're not making a documentary and it has to look good. It has to entertain, because otherwise your audience will switch and watch another series. It has to look better and larger than life.
Quotes to Explore
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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This is a polarizing statement, as I have come to discover, but I am a Pats, Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins fan from birth until death.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
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One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.
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It's always important to understand as filmmakers that we're not making a documentary and it has to look good. It has to entertain, because otherwise your audience will switch and watch another series. It has to look better and larger than life.
