Shonda and 'Grey's' have given me the opportunity to become a director, and that's something that I hadn't really envisioned for myself, other than directing for theater. Now I've got this resume of television credits that I can carry forward into the next opportunity.
I'm a one-uniform kind of person; I like to establish the look of a character and just stick with that - like a cartoon.
I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.
It's very difficult to advocate for yourself while you're in excruciating pain.
You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.
When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.
Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.