Asian Quotes · Page 18

When you see a movie, they always put the Latino on the bad side or in a tacky way. It's not like…

— J Balvin

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

— Andy Hargreaves

Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

— George Takei

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

— Nathan Adrian

It's tough situation for Asian players because all the tournaments in Europe and U.S. It's not easy to go and come back…

— Kei Nishikori

As an Asian guy, I would love to see a big blockbuster with Asian lead characters.

— Hiro Murai

I learned my weaknesses at the Asian Games and other competitions where I lost. My guard was down.

— Mary Kom

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

— Kabir Bedi

I'm Asian, and I'm an actress, and I've been doing this since I was a teenager, so if anyone understands the conversation…

— Jessica Henwick

In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So…

— Jason Wu

I see myself as a different sort of Welsh. Because we are from Cardiff, we see Wales as Cardiff. This is Wales;…

— Craig Bellamy

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all…

— Pitbull

Sometimes, we want Asians in the media, but we don't want them to talk about being Asian. For me, that's interesting because…

— Ronny Chieng

I'm a quarter Chinese and three-quarter Filipino. I don't look Filipino; I look more Chinese or Korean. It actually works in my…

— Reggie Lee

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that…

— Li Peng

Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh…

— Ross Butler

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research…

— Amy Chua

The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike…

— Danny Glover

Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,…

— Roberto Esposito

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

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

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

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

When these Asians go out looking for a victim, they don't go looking for Asian victims. They don't go mugging Asian grandmas,…

— Mark Collett

When I say that asian women are beautiful it's not a sexual thing. I'm not being degrading, I find them sexually repulsive.

— Doug Stanhope

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what…

— Su-chin Pak

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each…

— Justin Chon

If you're Black or Asian and you want to be a country artist and hopefully have a no. 1 record, you can.…

— Jimmie Allen

I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.

— Tao Lin

Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of…

— John Cho

It's very hard, you know, for an Asian actor to be in a prime-time television series.

— Sammo Hung

I grew up in a steel town, and at the time, when I was a kid, there weren't any Asian families in…

— Daniel Dae Kim

People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Mai? Asian chick? Likes to kick people? Yeah, last time I saw her, she was at the bottom of an elevator shaft…

— John Mcclane

It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring…

— Grace Meng

People ask where I'm from, and I say 'Los Angeles.' Then they ask again. 'Well, my parents are from Korea.'

— Chloe Kim

The AFC Asian Cup is the most important and biggest competition in Asia, and we should do our best to win it.

— Park Ji-sung

I've been lucky to come up when there's such a huge explosion of women, and especially Asian women, in music.

— Michelle Zauner

When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me…

— Camila Mendes