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.
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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.
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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.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
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Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.
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Actors just need each other to act together.
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If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole...It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.
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Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
