Asian Quotes · Page 15

People are racist about redheads in a way they'd never dare to be about black or Asian people.

— Mick Hucknall

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

— Mickey Rooney

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

— Jemima Khan

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

— Michael Chang

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

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

— Jose Antonio Vargas

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

— Lucy Liu

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

I am Latino. I'm proud of being Latino. That's not to say I wouldn't love to see more diversity in casting. It's…

— Carlo Alban

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't…

— Santiago Cabrera

My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had…

— Ali Wong

A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because…

— Kevin Kwan

Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also…

— Laura Harrington

I wanted to tour the United States because I feel I owe it to the community that I grew up in. When…

— Amber Liu

In my 40s, the two cultures finally came to peace with one other inside me, and I have come to identify myself…

— Li Lu

I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn…

— Angela Bassett

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.…

— L. Ron Hubbard

To be honest, at that point, just being so fresh to L.A., I was in the mind-set of just getting work, at…

— Steven Yeun

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate…

— Anonymous

There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what…

— Chris Rock

But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children…

— Anonymous

We all want to be identified as someone cool, and I have struggled with repping where I'm from and my heritage before.…

— Saweetie

Yes, I do feel a responsibility, and always have, and it's been an odd burden for me. Even when I started and…

— John Cho

Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of…

— Hélder Câmara

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

— Hendrik Poinar

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

— Brett Ratner

There was never a point where I thought, 'I'm going to do something Asian American.'

— Lee Isaac Chung

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

— Michael Chang

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

— John Cho

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

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

— Park Ji-sung

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

— CL

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

— Margaret Cho

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

— Charlemagne Palestine

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

— Amy Chua

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