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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

Bai Ling

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don’t ask questions… You follow and obey.
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Chinese Culture Obedience
What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don’t like that quality in a woman. But I’ll do it when the film is very close to me.
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Actresses Directors Quality
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts… but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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Beauty Crazy Wise
Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing’s dark, dark is beautiful too.
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Beautiful Dark Thinking
I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don’t even update at all, often I don’t.
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Blog Chinese Update
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don’t know if that’s good or not, because where I come from, sex isn’t something you’re allowed to talk about.
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Asia People Sex
You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don’t want to face.
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Day Life Rainy Storm Things
Sex is the best high. It’s better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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Drug Love Sex
Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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Believe Dream Innocence
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.
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Different Hollywood Thinking
I guess I feel like it’s a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it’s a small role, it’s a gift to be working that closely with them.
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Artist Roles Stones
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.
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Acting People Struggle
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Actresses Side Want
And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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Dream People Responsibility
I think I’m like a free spirit.
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Free Like Spirit Thinking
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.
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Beautiful Brother Country
Acting to me is real life – I don’t act.
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Acting Real Real Life
The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you’re happy, you’re a better person.
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Better Happy Partner Person
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!’
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Character Children Crazy
You have to be proud of who you are.
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Appreciate Honor Proud
When you don’t get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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Accepting Real Want
I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts – not expensive things, just romantic things.
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Expensive Flower Guy Plastic Romantic
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Experience Feel Live Should Woman
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I’m really fond of.
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Asian Director Two
I hate shopping. I don’t go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
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Hate Running Shopping
I’m a person that doesn’t have that many goals or plans. I feel like I’m the wind and I blow through life; it’s whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I’m happy and I embrace it.
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Blow Goal Wind
I think I’m known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It’s not that I’m not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don’t back away – I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.
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Fear Thinking Trying

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

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