Sandra Oh Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
-
I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
-
I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
-
Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
-
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
-
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
-
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
-
I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
-
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
-
I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
-
I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
-
The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.
-
I'm a terrible long-term planner.
-
I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature.
-
I was raised by women.
-
The fact that we are playing Latinos does not mean that you have to be shouting 'fiesta,' 'taco,' or talking in the same way most Latin characters do in American television.
-
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
-
When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood.
-
My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.
-
We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.
-
I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.
-
I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
-
When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.
-
You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.
