Actress

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.

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

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

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

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 always thought of myself as James Bond.

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.'

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

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

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.

It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

In Europe and America, you never see a director pick up a camera. They all sit behind monitors.

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

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