Sandra Oh Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.”

“I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.”

“People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.”

“The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'”

“And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.”

“As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.”

“I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.”

“You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.”

“I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.”

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