Michelle Yeoh movie quotes

“I chose to help my husband run a business and to raise a family. For me, it was a privilege. But for you, you may think it's old-fashioned. It's nice you appreciate this house and us being here together wrapping dumplings. But all this doesn't just happen. It's because we know to put family first, instead of chasing one's passion.”
Michelle Yeoh - Eleanor Young

“You cannot call yourself a true geisha until you can stop a man in his tracks with a single look.”

Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“- Shen: My parents hated me. Do you understand? They wronged me. And I will make it right.
- Soothsayer: They loved you. They loved you so much that having to send you away killed them.
- Shen: The dead exist in the past. And I must attend to the future.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Shen
Michelle Yeoh - Soothsayer

“- Jen Yu: It must exciting to be a fighter, to be totally free.
- Yu Shu Lien: Fighters have rules, too. Friendship, trust, integrity. Always keep your promise. Without rules we wouldn't survive long.”
Zhang Ziyi - Jen Yu
Michelle Yeoh - Yu Shu Lien

“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.”
Michelle Yeoh - Soothsayer

Every once in a while, a man's "eel" likes to visit a woman's "cave".

Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“Geisha are not courtesans or wives. We sell our skills, not our bodies. We create another secret world, a place only of beauty.”

Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“To repress one's feelings only makes them stronger.”
Michelle Yeoh - Yu Shu Lien

“No man would bid so much for a thing he had already taken.”

Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“Whatever path you decide to take in this life, be true to yourself.”
Michelle Yeoh - Yu Shu Lien

The very word "geisha" means artist and to be a geisha is to be judged as a moving work of art.
Michelle Yeoh - Mameha

“- Wai Lin: What are you waiting for, shoot him!
- James Bond: I told you, we're gonna finish this together!
- Elliot Carver: How romantic! Do you realize how absurd your position is?
- James Bond: No more absurd than starting a war for ratings.
- Elliot Carver: Great men have always manipulated the media to save the world.”

Michelle Yeoh - Wai Lin
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver