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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.

Bai Ling

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
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
Acting to me is real life – I don’t act.
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Acting Real Real Life
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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Men Talking Teamwork
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
Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
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Actors Chance Favorite Take
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
When you’re challenged, you’re totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!
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Alive Dangerous Reality
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
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 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’m not superstitious.
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Mind Power Religious Superstitious Think
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
You never know what’s going to happen. That’s why I like acting. It’s precious to me to be able to live more than one life.
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Able Acting Happens
I think I’m like a free spirit.
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Free Like Spirit Thinking
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
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
I think I’m open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I’m really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look as good on paper, but I know how to create them on screen. I like to have fun and interpret my roles in my own way.
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Adventure Fun Thinking
Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I’m not existing.
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Mean Name White
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I’m really fond of.
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Asian Director Two
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
You have to be proud of who you are.
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Appreciate Honor Proud
The definition of love is giving.
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Definitions Giving Love
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 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
I also like to follow nature’s rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we’re born at this time, we just live it.
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Accepting Born Just Live
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

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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