Michelle Yeoh took house the award for finest actress in a musical or comedy movie on the 2023 Golden Globes, successful for her position as universe-jumping laundromat proprietor Evelyn Wang in “All the things All over the place All at As soon as.” The legend celebrated her win on the Jan. 10 occasion with an impassioned look again at her journey to the second.

“I am simply gonna stand right here and take this all in,” she mentioned. “Forty years, not letting go of this . . . It has been a tremendous journey and unbelievable struggle to be right here immediately. However I believe it has been value it,” she mentioned. “I bear in mind once I first got here to Hollywood, it was a dream come true till I received right here,” she continued, inflicting the viewers to burst into laughter.

“Have a look at this face,” she continued. “I got here right here and was informed, ‘You are a minority,’ and I am like, ‘No, that is not doable.’ Then somebody mentioned to me, ‘You converse English?’ I imply, overlook about them not understanding Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Asia, India. After which I mentioned, ‘Yeah, the flight right here was about 13 hours lengthy, so I discovered.'”

Yeoh went on to change into an icon, however she mentioned that lately, she started to fret her profession could be over. “I turned 60 final yr,” she mentioned. “I believe all of you girls perceive this — as the times, the years, and the numbers get larger, it looks as if alternatives begin to get smaller as nicely. I in all probability was at a time the place I assumed, ‘Properly, hey, come on, woman, you had a extremely, actually good run. You labored with a few of the finest individuals — Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Danny Boyle — and so, it is good, it is all good.’ Then alongside got here the perfect present: ‘All the things All over the place All at As soon as.'”

At that time, music began taking part in, and Yeoh mentioned, “Shut up, please. I can beat you up. And that is critical.” She then went on to thank the film’s producers and administrators, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “who had the braveness to write down a couple of very ornery immigrant Asian lady, mom, daughter,” she mentioned. “I used to be given this present of taking part in this lady who resonated so deeply with me and with so many individuals. As a result of on the finish of the day, in no matter universe she was at, she was simply preventing — preventing for love, for her household.” She additionally thanked Ke Huy Quan, who gained finest supporting actor earlier within the night time for his position as her husband; Stephanie Hsu, who performed her daughter; and her “hot-dog lover,” Jamie Lee Curtis.

On the finish of her speech, she thanked “all of the shoulders that I stand on, all who got here earlier than me, who seems to be like me, and all who’re occurring this journey with me ahead. Thanks for believing in us.”

On the purple carpet earlier than her win, Yeoh informed Leisure Tonight that she feels “it is about time” for her to be acknowledged after her a long time of labor in Hollywood. “It is like, you recognize, you’re employed and you’re employed, and you set your head down, and also you assume it is OK since you love what you are doing and also you’re giving your finest, and also you’re working with individuals that you just actually, actually get pleasure from. They usually change into like household, and all this isn’t what you began off with, and it is OK, it is OK,” she mentioned. “However, after all, whenever you have a look at your friends, and also you go like [sighs] and instantly now — to have the ability to be getting understanding — what it seems like to essentially be seen, it does make a distinction.”

Watch her speech above.