Sandra Oh Quotes

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

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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

• I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.

  

  Michael Chiklis
  • Things
  • Actors
  • Persons

• A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

  

  Isak Dinesen
  • Happy
  • Poet
  • Mission

• General systems theory is the scientific exploration of "wholes" and "wholeness" which, not so long ago, were considered metaphysical notions transcending the boundaries of science. Hierarchic structure, stability, teleology, differentiation, approach to and maintenance of steady states, goal-directedness — these are a few of such general system properties.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Science
  • Goal
  • Theory

• I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Considered
  • Glittering

• Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

  

  Aaron T. Beck
  • Stop
  • Chance
  • Give

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

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Actors
  • Becoming
  • Calling