When you don’t get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
BAI LINGI’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.
More Bai Ling Quotes
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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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I think sometimes I’m more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you’re always hurrying. And sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m here and there.
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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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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don’t ask questions… You follow and obey.
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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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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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The definition of love is giving.
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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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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 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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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’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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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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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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