Sandra Oh

“I feel like I'm a late bloomer. My evolution in this business has been slow.”

“To be seen is a basic human need.”

“Beauty is not about putting on a beautiful face. It's about being a beautiful person.”

“It's an honor just to be Asian.”

“If you're not scared, you're not growing.”

“For me, I’m not a box that you can check.”

“Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it... or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.”

“Aging is a privilege.”

“You can't wait for the industry to change. You have to change it yourself.”

“I hope that my work is about the expansion of that, about how we see each other, how we see ourselves.”

“I want to be a Farkle.”

“Don't let fear make you weird.”

“I'm interested in the truth. I'm not interested in pleasing people.”

“I am a woman of color, and I am an immigrant.”

“The work is the most important thing. That's all that matters.”

“I'm very proud of my heritage.”

“Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature.”

“I think it's really important to be able to see yourself, and to see your experience reflected back at you.”

“I was blessed with a certain amount of physical energy, and then I always had a desire to direct it into something.”