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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I think I’m like a free spirit.
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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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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’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts – not expensive things, just romantic things.
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When you don’t get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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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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I’m one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
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I hate shopping. I don’t go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
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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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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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Acting to me is real life – I don’t act.
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The definition of love is giving.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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