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Greta Lee

(1983) Actor

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A bold eyebrow tattoo is something Greta Lee warns against, saying drastic changes need careful thought. She talks about how silence can show restraint and trust, and how seeing more Asian heroes on screen helps her feel represented. She also mentions acting in English feels tough and that she uses wild outfits at family dinners as a quiet protest.

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Greta Lee is an actor.

Quick Facts About Greta Lee

Born: March 7, 1983
Profession: Actor

About Greta Lee

American actress (born 1983)... | Greta Lee is an American actress. She had main roles in the Netflix comedy-drama series Russian Doll (2019–2022) and the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2021–2025). The latter earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She gain

Quotes by Greta Lee

Peacocks are aggressive.

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I mean, I do love clothes personally.

Clothes

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I mean, I grew up in Los Angeles.

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Acting is hard enough in English.

Acting

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Nature is my regenerative escape, absolutely.

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I don't really like magic. Or magicians.

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It makes me really anxious. Being seen. Which sounds nuts, because I'm an actor.

Actor

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We're all just trying to make sense of the injustice that we only get to live once.

Injustice

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Sometimes your dream just ends up even better than you could have ever imagined.

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I came from a really traditional home where my dad was working, and my mom was a housewife.

Dad

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You can never guarantee what kind of connection a movie might have with an audience.

Audience

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Don't do anything drastic like getting your eyebrows tattooed.

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One of the gifts of motherhood, is that it wreaks havoc on your skin.

Gifts

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I'm a human being. I have lost loves - not just romantically.

Being

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Falling in love, like really falling in love - it's a full-body experience, no matter who you are.

Experience

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I think that it is a total shame that we don't have more female directors or rather, more opportunities for them. It…

Directors

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It felt like I was always finding a side door in, in terms of these wonderful women that I've gotten to play…

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For someone like me, you get used to this idea that there are such limited opportunities. There just are.

Idea

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I was totally obsessed with Aaliyah, tomboy dressing, and TLC - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez was my everything.

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I'm embarrassed to reveal how much time I have spent in my life thinking about roasted chicken. I'm not kidding.

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Through comedy I could play someone with... a different physicality or someone much older, or all of these things that I was…

Comedy

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I started to accept the reality and the inequities. I started to think maybe I wouldn't have the kind of career I…

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I would love to work with Greta Gerwig, although it would be confusing for everyone. I'm willing to be called Amanda -…

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I think I grew up after years and years of being criticized for my Korean being bad and like disappointing my ancestors…

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For so long, I have privately felt that what makes a universal good story is cultural specificity. That is just the truth:…

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It sounds extreme. But when you have no sort of representation, when you're completely absent from media or from everything you're consuming,…

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I feel strongly about opening up the conversation around the wage gap. It makes a difference how much you get paid, especially…

Age gap

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Yes, well, inyeon is just really about human connectedness. It's something that, maybe even for me personally, this concept felt foreign to…

Connectedness

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I was genuinely fascinated by this idea of how you can have young people who are visionaries, taste-makers and disruptors in Silicon…

Media

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It's an active fight against this messaging that we've been hit over the head with since we were really young, that you…

America

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I was like a regular suburban kid who was desperate to look like Jennifer Aniston.

Desperate

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Actually falling in love is hyper-humiliating and cringey.

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The truth is, as an Asian American actor, there really are only certain opportunities.

Actor

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It's so hard to engineer connection over the distance of screens.

Connection

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I was not very good at playing a lab technician or a doctor.

Doctor

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It's human nature. If you're told not to do something, it makes you think about it.

Human

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Personal solidarity sometimes can't translate in the way you want in a corporate environment.

Environment

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My all-time favorite fail-proof look is anything with a trench. Can't go wrong.

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When I lived in New York, I was still ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist. I thought that…

Actor

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A lot of silence takes so much specificity and detail. To not fill the space with words takes restraint and an extraordinary…

Detail

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