Sandra Oh Quotes

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

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.

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

Being present is the actor's job. Being aware of your body, in space, and the emotions that are occurring inside, is essential. Well, quite simply, the more aware one is-of yourself, of your surroundings, of other people-the more likely you are to respond truthfully.

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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.

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.

Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go,

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.

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.

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