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.
BAI LINGI 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.
More Bai Ling Quotes
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I’m not superstitious.
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Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.
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When you don’t get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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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.
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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 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 hate shopping. I don’t go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
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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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Acting to me is real life – I don’t act.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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