Sandra Oh

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

“I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.”

“When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?”

“I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.”

“The best thing I've ever taken from a set is the rug in Owen and Cristina's apartment on Grey's Anatomy before they broke up.”

“I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.”

“I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.”

“Self-care doesn't necessarily mean jogging!”

“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 don't spend too much time on social media, so I can protect my mind space.”

“There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.”

“I'd be so fascinated to talk to a psychologist or sociologist about the deep psychological impact of seeing oneself represented. I don't think we've really touched the surface of what it does to the psyche of a people if the only image of you out there is negative. Or if it's never out there.”

“Thinking ahead or thinking behind is not good for me.”

“I truly believe that to actually be free and to be in place you can create from, you have to be able to be private.”

“I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.”

“It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter - goals, social media, image, persona. And if you're able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.”