Michelle Yeoh Quotes

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

I just look back, and I say, you know, Christopher Guest just raised my whole career to another level.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

I am not at a level where I will be flooded with offers. Hopefully, things will change after 'Pink.' It is one film after 'Shaitan' where I am hoping things will change for me.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

'Vikram Vedha' is special because it has taken me to the next level in my career.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

I want to see my career evolve into limitlessness.

It's important to be seen in different films and banners.

Mentors and sponsors, particularly in the early stages of my career, were invaluable to me because they encouraged me to raise my hand and take opportunities to build my capabilities.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.

I could have never had any kind of creative freedom on TV, so then I did movies! Now, I am able to do all kinds of entertainment... and that, I feel, is the biggest blessing!

'Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.

I would want to believe that every film I do turns out to be the turning point of my career.