“Acting is not just impersonating your character.”

“Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.”

“As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.”

“As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.”

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

“As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make.”

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

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

“Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.”

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

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

“For an actress, everything is always fine - you are looked after, you have your trailer, and everything provided. But the crew are the ones out there in the wilds all the time, hours before and after us.”

“For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.”

“I always thought of myself as James Bond.”

“I believe all of us want to do good for our country.”

“I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.”

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

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

“I don't plan to go out and do action or not do action.”

“I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.”

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

“I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.”

“I have done many films across the globe and would love to be a part of Bollywood, but the script must have a strong character for me.”

“I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.”

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

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

“If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.”

“If you were ever a ballerina, you know the pain: just to be able to look like it's all so light, but when they take off their shoes, it's all bloody.”

“I'm not a fashion victim, and I don't closely follow trends. I dress the way I feel comfortable because, at the end of the day, you have to be comfortable.”

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

“In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?”

“In many ways, I feel I'm still as physically fit as I was 20 years ago because I've always been athletic.”

“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.'”

“India is a great talent pool of actors. I see Freida Pinto making it big in Hollywood, and I am sure many others can also make it.”

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

“It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.”

“It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.”

“Jackie Chan is like a big bro to me.”

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

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

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

“Movies cater to what the audiences want.”

“My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.”

“My grandmother had flawless skin just from using basic skincare - an old herbal remedy in the form of a white powder and cream. I don't actually know what was in it because when you're young, you're not interested in skincare, and I didn't want to walk around the house with a white face.”

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

“On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.”

“Playing Aung San Suu Kyi was a journey in itself. She represents many things for many people and for many reasons. Although I have played many important roles in my life, I can say that this role has been a journey of self-realisation.”

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

“Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That's where it's coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing.”

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

“The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.”

“The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.”

“There is no guaranteed formula. And that's one of the interesting things about filmmaking. You could put USD115 million in, and it doesn't guarantee success.”

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

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

“They won't take you seriously because you are a girl. These guys had to understand that you are just as tough as them, and you have to take them on.”

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

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

“Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.”

“Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.”

“We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.”

“We always see Aung San as a strong, tough woman. There are two stories running in parallel. You see the contradictions between the East and the West, and you see someone who does mundane and normal things - someone who's supposed to be a housewife - and then someone who's become important and imprisoned.”

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

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

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

“When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.”

“When you love someone, you don't try to change them.”

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

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

“You have to have integrity.”

“You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, 'That plus that equals success.'”

“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.”