Michelle Yeoh
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"Asian Film Award"2004

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Malay styles and titles#Tan Sri/Tan Sri "Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng" is a Malaysian actress, best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she was chosen by People (magazine)/People as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1997.

She is best known in the Western world for her roles in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, playing Wai Lin, and the multiple Academy Award-winning Chinese-language martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role/BAFTA Award for Best Actress in 54th British Academy Film Awards/2000. In 2008, the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action heroine of all time. In 2009, she was listed by People (magazine)/People magazine – as the only Asian actress – as one of the "35 All-Time Screen Beauties".

She is credited as "Michelle Khan" in some of her earlier films. This alias was chosen by the D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences. Yeoh later preferred using her real name.

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

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

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

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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.

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Tomorrow Never Dies.

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

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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,'.

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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.

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