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Sandra Oh [1971-0] Canadian

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Actress

Sandra Miju Oh is a Canadian actress known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy, a role that earned her a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild awards, as well as five nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

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When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?		101
With small breasts, you don't have to wear a bra with dresses that have some support. It feels sexy without one.		102
I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do.		103
Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.		104
People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.		105
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.	Chance	106
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.		107
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.		108
I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.		109
I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.		110
Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.		111
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.		112
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.		113
If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.		114
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.		115
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.		116
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.		117
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.		118
You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.		119
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.		120
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.		121
I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.		122
I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.		123
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.'		124

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