Sandra Oh Quotes

Author Image

Sandra Oh

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 20, 1971

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

Sandra Oh

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

Sandra Oh

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.

Sandra Oh

I am so constantly amazed by people's care and love for Cristina Yang.

Sandra Oh

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

Sandra Oh

I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.

Sandra Oh

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.

Sandra Oh

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.

Sandra Oh

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

Sandra Oh

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

Sandra Oh

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

Sandra Oh

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

Sandra Oh

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'

Sandra Oh

I don't think people get the pressure of becoming famous and what it does for an artist. What does that for your creative self. And what that can do for your mental health. And I would say, from year two to year six or eight of 'Grey's,' it was extremely difficult and very stressful and traumatic, if I'm being honest.

Sandra Oh

I truly believe that to actually be free and to be in place you can create from, you have to be able to be private.

Sandra Oh

I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.

Sandra Oh

I don't spend too much time on social media, so I can protect my mind space.

Sandra Oh

I'd be so fascinated to talk to a psychologist or sociologist about the deep psychological impact of seeing oneself represented. I don't think we've really touched the surface of what it does to the psyche of a people if the only image of you out there is negative. Or if it's never out there.

Sandra Oh

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

Sandra Oh

When you're able to shoot in Europe and internationally, those locations don't lie. The feeling doesn't lie, the quality of the light. You can always tell when it's shot in London.

Sandra Oh