#m

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. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#buy #canadian #communal #cook #equal

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#atlanta #him #i #i remember #me

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. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#casting #category #even #get #i

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. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#canada #career #directors #done #entire

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. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#been #feel #hard #i #i feel

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

— Sandra Oh

#becoming #calling #hard #too

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#boxes #hollywood #likes #put #really

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. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#better #call #canada #constantly #every

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. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#auditioning #blonde #certain #certain actors #difficult

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#comes #equate #fame #fun #genies