Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.

- Sonja Sohn

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was ver…

- Sonja Sohn

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writi…

- Sonja Sohn

I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committe…

- Sonja Sohn

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

- Sonja Sohn

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a chi…

- Sonja Sohn

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just re…

- Sonja Sohn

Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doi…

- Sonja Sohn

I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was d…

- Sonja Sohn