"A lot of things that I can't get……" — Sandra Oh
"A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white."
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31 Quotes by Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh has 31 quotes on this site.
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As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's…
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Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We…
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Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.
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And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have…
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All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done -…
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Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
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I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you…
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I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.
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I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like…
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I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me…
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I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew…
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Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church,
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More Casting Quotes
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting…
— Robert Benchley
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Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
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I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as…
— Selma Blair
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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection…
— Lionel Blue
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A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple…
— Ben Affleck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's…
— Charles Bronson
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'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me…
— Albert Brooks
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Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.
— Steve Buscemi
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the…
— Naomi Campbell
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're…
— John le Carre
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