"I'm just going to stand here and take this all in," a stunned Yeoh began."Forty years -- not letting go of this. So just quickly, thank you Hollywood Foreign Press for giving me this honor. It's been an amazing journey, an incredible fight to be here today. But I think it's been worth it."
"I remember when I first came to Hollywood, it was a dream come true until I got here because -- look at this space, I came here and was told, 'You're a minority and I'm, like, 'No, that's not possible,' and then someone said to me, 'You speak English?' I mean, forget about them not knowing Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Asia, India. And then I said, 'Yeah, the flight here was about 13 hours long, so I learned," she recounted.
"To Jonathan Wong, my producer, thank you for being there with us every step of the way," Yeoh added before thanking the Asian actresses who have come before her and the ones who will follow in her footsteps."My manager, David Unger, and Kit Wong, who believed in me. And this is also for all the shoulders that I stand on, all who came before me who look like me, and all who are going on this journey with me forward. So, thank you for believing in us. Thank you. Thank you so much.
"It's like, you know, you work and you work and you put your head down and you think it's OK because you love what you're doing and you're giving your best and you're working with people that you really, really enjoy, and they become like family and all this is not what you started off with and it's OK, it's OK," thestar exclaimed.
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