Sandra Oh Quotes

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

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• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Free
  • Ego
  • Actions

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Like
  • Grow Up

• I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Feels
  • Scary

• It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Music
  • High
  • Sky

• History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.

  

  T. M. Scanlon
  • Country
  • History
  • Inspired

• Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Friends

• What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Political
  • Matter
  • Views

• Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Family
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Paint
  • Conclusion
  • Impressionism

• No job in America should go unfilled because somebody doesn't have the right skills to get that job, nobody. So, if there's a job open, we should train those folks right away so that they can do the job.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • America
  • Train

• The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

  

  Lord Byron

• I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • World
  • Trying
  • Welcome

• I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Live
  • Money
  • Done

• I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Denzel

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

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Actors
  • Boxes
  • Asian