BUST: "You have no compunction about playing characters that are Japanese or Chinese, I see."

Sandra: "Yeah, I started that way. I played a Chinese girl, Evelyn Lau; the very first thing that I did...I encourage it. I completely understand saying that you want to be specific to the ethnicity, but that rule never applies to white people...Ralph Fiennes can play an English person, a German person, a Polish person, a Jewish person. He can play anything, and no one questions him. He is a handsome, Caucasian-looking-ish man. So, to American audiences, Europe looks like that. Europe does not look like that...that is the image we have been fed for 60 years, so we accept that. But what I have big problems with is when people put those limits on me...there always has to be a quantifier or qualifier when it comes to me."

"I was a typical drama freak [in high school] who needed to express herself. My favourite outfit was orange palazzo pants that I'd wear with this beat-up tuxedo jacket. And I'd have my hair up with a giant bow."

People: "Proud to be Canadian?"

Sandra: "More now than I ever have been. As this country was reelecting the current Administraiton, the Canadian government [is on its way to] legalizing gay marriage and decriminalizing pot. Those are small things on the big scale of what is going on in the world, but they're things where Canadians are far ahead."

On moving to Los Angeles: "I wish I could stay in Canada...there's just not enough for me to do...I'm not going to sit there, waiting around, being rejected and frustrated that there are no stories for me to tell."

"If there's another f@*#^*g show or movie about New York and everyone's white, I'm gonna f*#@!*g die. That is so unacceptable."

"Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard."

"I think all women should learn how to strip...it's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do."

"When you're young, nothing is scary, that's the beautiful thing. I know I'm not young anymore because now I'm scared of stuff..."

"Now I'm extremely grateful for every barrier my parents put in front of me. They tried to discourage me so thoroughly that the need to succeed defeated the need for my parents' approval.

"From then on, I've never needed anyone's approval. It didn't matter what any producer said, I'd already stood up to the most important people in the world."