Canadian - Actress | July 20, 1971 -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.
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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.
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If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.
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I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.
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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.'
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I truly believe that to actually be free and to be in place you can create from, you have to be able to be private.
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I grew up in so much church: English-speaking church, Korean church.
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I don't spend too much time on social media, so I can protect my mind space.
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