Quotes from Bai Ling

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'

Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.