Asian Quotes · Page 13

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

— Anonymous

I have been called racist slurs and been treated differently because I am Asian American.

— Michelle Steel

In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a…

— Dante Basco

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have…

— KT Tunstall

I don't want to perpetuate a stereotype. I don't want to take Asian representation backwards two steps. I don't want to be…

— Jessica Henwick

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

— Ming-Na Wen

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

— Henry Rosovsky

I'm Jamaican and I'm Chinese. I'm not going to try to separate the two. That's me.

— Patrick Chung

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of…

— Joan Chen

In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will…

— Ivan Krastev

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The fact that I'm able to portray these complex, fully realized, queer Asian characters? I never thought it would be in this…

— Nico Santos

In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at…

— Joan Chen

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin…

— Rosie Perez

We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They…

— Pol Pot

I'm one of not even a handful of British Asian popstars who are maninstream. Of course I was always tagged as British…

— Jay Sean

Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I…

— Taufik Hidayat

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

— Riz Ahmed

The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many…

— Kevin Kwan

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

— Pauline Hanson

Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found…

— Taitetsu Unno

There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests.…

— Amy Chua

We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I…

— Richard Rodriguez

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

— Phillipa Soo

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

— Shibani Dandekar

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

— Henry Golding

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 want people to understand that there are Asians born with the crease I had surgically done to my eyes, so the…

— Julie Chen

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

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

— Lana Condor

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

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

— Michael Chang

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

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

— Margaret Cho