When you don’t get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
BAI LINGWhat 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.
More Bai Ling Quotes
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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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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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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I’m really fond of.
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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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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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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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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don’t ask questions… You follow and obey.
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I’m one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
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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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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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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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I’m very private in person. I’m very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I’m talking, maybe there’s this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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I think I’m like a free spirit.
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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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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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