"I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about"
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Then she name-checks "the Genies" - a distinctly Canadian awards context that signals both pride and distance. Awards season is treated like a party you can enjoy without mistaking it for the point of the job. The repetition of "so much fun" isn't fluff; it's a rhetorical safety valve. Oh gives the culture its expected nod to glamour while slipping in the real message: validation feels good, but it's not a compass.
The subtext is about survival in an industry that constantly tries to turn performers into brands. For an actor like Oh - long celebrated for range and rigor rather than tabloid mythology - this is a defense of artistic continuity. She's also gently demystifying success for younger artists watching: you can be grateful without being captured by it. In an era when visibility is treated as a moral metric, she makes a heretical claim: attention is a side effect. The work is the relationship. The rest is just confetti.
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Oh, Sandra. (2026, January 16). I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-equate-fame-towards-people-who-know-your-work-116386/
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Oh, Sandra. "I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-equate-fame-towards-people-who-know-your-work-116386/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-equate-fame-towards-people-who-know-your-work-116386/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.





