Asian Quotes · Page 11

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

— Scott Derrickson

I moved from Australia to Manhattan five years ago and realized I was very well-accepted in the South Asian industry there.

— Shibani Dandekar

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud…

— Henry Golding

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

— Justin Lin

I definitely have been approached and reached out to by a lot of young Asian American and Asian women, which has been…

— Phillipa Soo

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

— Dev Patel

I had a couple of Asian readers and other folks tell me, "Oh, you have a lot of sex in your writing."

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS- you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

— Margaret Cho

In Asia, there aren't many characters as iconoclastic as the Monkey King. He's a trickster and contrarian character who works everywhere -…

— Rob Minkoff

That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of…

— Mazie Hirono

It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this…

— Ian Bremmer

I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here.…

— Mitski

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for…

— Andrea Jung

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A.,…

— Aasif Mandvi

Given the stake that both the U.S. and Europe have in stabilising and sustaining global growth, their policies should be aimed at…

— Sanjaya Baru

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were…

— Salma Hayek

Because Oswestry is very much an Anglo-Welsh mix it can lead you to feeling a bit bipolar sometimes. I mean, you're in…

— Jesse Armstrong

Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you…

— Joseph Campbell

We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative…

— Karan Mahajan

We recognize that there have been acts in the past that are Asian or Korean who tried to go, 'Hey, I'm a…

— Eric Nam

All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and…

— Subcomandante Marcos

I always feel like people misunderstand the difference between an Asian story and an Asian-American story. That's completely different, too. I have…

— Arden Cho

I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of…

— Pauline Hanson

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist…

— Riz Ahmed

I want to break that typical Asian female stereotype. There's this standard where they're all calm. I want to break that.

— CL

There aren't many Asian players in Europe or the Premier League, so that's more attention for me.

— Park Ji-sung

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or…

— Kelly Hu

One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.

— John Cho

The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian…

— Michael Chang

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Hollywood screwed up in the past. They made Asians the other - a separate group that could only hang out with each…

— Lana Condor

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

— Amy Chua

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

— Charlemagne Palestine

I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.

— Brett Ratner

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.

— Hendrik Poinar

Danny Chung in 'Veep' is a really unique, very anti-stereotypical role for an Asian-American actor, and being able to play that has…

— Randall Park

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.

— Lucy Liu

America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Whatever ethnicity you are, yes, absolutely you have to be proud of who you are man. I am really really proud to…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

— Malcolm Gladwell