Quotes from Sandra Oh

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

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.

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

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.

With small breasts, you don't have to wear a bra with dresses that have some support. It feels sexy without one.

I am so constantly amazed by people's care and love for Cristina Yang.

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.

I saw 'Joy Luck Club' when it came out, so that was early mid-'90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We'd just done 'Double Happiness,' and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.

Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.

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

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.'

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

When you're able to shoot in Europe and internationally, those locations don't lie. The feeling doesn't lie, the quality of the light. You can always tell when it's shot in London.

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

Thinking ahead or thinking behind is not good for me.

For me, I just am so grateful to be an actor.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.