"In many Asian households, to not go on……" — Sandra Oh
"In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know."
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31 Quotes by Sandra Oh
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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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A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're…
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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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More Asian Quotes
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed…
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We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male…
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
— Iris Chang
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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
— Joan Chen
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For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a…
— Joan Chen
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To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of…
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When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never…
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
— Ted Allen
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
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