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

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

I believe we are all born equal. You know, we are, whether you're a boy or a girl, you should have the same equal rights.

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.

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.

I don't like Kublai Khan, let's just kill him off!

That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.

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.

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?

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.

For me, the director is the most important thing. He is steering the boat. If you don't trust him, you won't be able to give him your all.

The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it.

You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.