Top 35 Bai Ling Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I think I’m like a free spirit.”

— Bai Ling

2. “You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don’t want to face.”

— Bai Ling

3. “The definition of love is giving.”

— Bai Ling

4. “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!’”

— Bai Ling

5. “You have to be proud of who you are.”

— Bai Ling

6. “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.”

— Bai Ling

7. “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.”

— Bai Ling

8. “When you don’t get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.”

— Bai Ling

9. “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.”

— Bai Ling

10. “Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I’m not existing.”

— Bai Ling

11. “Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing’s dark, dark is beautiful too.”

— Bai Ling

12. “I hate shopping. I don’t go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.”

— Bai Ling

13. “I’m one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.”

— Bai Ling

14. “I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.”

— Bai Ling

15. “Acting to me is real life – I don’t act.”

— Bai Ling

16. “The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you’re happy, you’re a better person.”

— Bai Ling

17. “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.”

— Bai Ling

18. “Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.”

— Bai Ling

19. “I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.”

— Bai Ling

20. “Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I’m really fond of.”

— Bai Ling

21. “And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.”

— Bai Ling

22. “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 Ling

23. “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.”

— Bai Ling

24. “I’m a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts – not expensive things, just romantic things.”

— Bai Ling

25. “I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don’t even update at all, often I don’t.”

— Bai Ling

26. “Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.”

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27. “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.”

— Bai Ling

28. “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.”

— Bai Ling

29. “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.”

— Bai Ling

30. “Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.”

— Bai Ling

31. “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.”

— Bai Ling

32. “When you’re challenged, you’re totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!”

— Bai Ling

33. “Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.”

— Bai Ling

34. “I’m not superstitious.”

— Bai Ling

35. “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.”

— Bai Ling

36. “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.”

— Bai Ling

37. “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