Sandra Oh Quotes

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Sandra Oh

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 20, 1971

With small breasts, you don't have to wear a bra with dresses that have some support. It feels sexy without one.

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You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.

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There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

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When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

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Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has the visibility.

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As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

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In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

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People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

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I saw 'Joy Luck Club' when it came out, so that was early mid-'90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We'd just done 'Double Happiness,' and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.

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I take it extremely seriously to do absolutely the best work possible and the truest work possible, because I feel like that is what's going to resonate not only for myself but hopefully for an audience.

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I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.

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I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

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I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

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I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.

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I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

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Young Asian people who come up to me have a certain vibration, and I receive it, and I understand it, and I feel emotional just talking about it. I'm here for you. And I'll continue doing everything I can to fill something that I know you need right now that we don't yet have as a community.

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And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.

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I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

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When I saw 'Fleabag,' and when this script came to me, there is a uniqueness and a dark naughtiness to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's sensibility that I did gravitate towards, very much.

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Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

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