Sandra Oh Quotes

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

Sandra Oh

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• Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Like
  • Moral
  • Feel

• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Ballplayers

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Time
  • Actors
  • Working

• After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actor
  • Becoming
  • Privacy

• I love actors.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Actors
  • I Love

• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Help

• Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Hope
  • Actors

• Pussy put his ass to sleep, now he calling me NyQuil

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Sleep
  • Calling
  • Ass

• Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

  

  Mallory Factor
  • Bad
  • Focus
  • Actors

• You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Actors
  • Illusions
  • Pigeons

• What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • God
  • Actors
  • Bored

• As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Respect

• Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Needs

• For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Acting

• And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Movies
  • Actors

• An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Idea
  • Calling
  • Risky

• Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.

  

  David Lubar
  • Book
  • Growing
  • Honest

• There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Actors
  • Dumb
  • Politician

• But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • Home
  • Song

• Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Cutting
  • Irritated

• The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook.

  

  Aristotle
  • Better
  • Judge
  • Cook

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

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Actors
  • Becoming
  • Calling