Asian Quotes · Page 19

The significance of playing a South Asian character that's a lead role in a network primetime television show is certainly not lost…

— Tiya Sircar

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

— Junichiro Koizumi

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

— Jai Rodriguez

Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians.…

— Yani Tseng

I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.

— Jessica Henwick

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

— Slash

There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own…

— Henry Golding

When you're the only Asian in the room, the last thing you want to do is to point out you're Asian. And…

— Jon M. Chu

I'm half Asian, so people immediately go, "Oh, you do kung fu," like that's what we do. We wake up, we do…

— Maggie Q

My first Asian role model was Michelle Kwan. Her beauty comes from within. She's also really beautiful on the outside. But when…

— Constance Wu

It was quite strange that people were saying I wasn't Asian enough. It's like, 'Oh, you're not Asian enough to play an…

— Henry Golding

In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge…

— Jonathan Jakubowicz

I have this internal cultural struggle where there's a side of me that is very Brazilian that misses the food and culture,…

— Morena Baccarin

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of…

— Gary Miller

China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I…

— Naoto Kan

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist,…

— Newt Gingrich

So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are…

— Sharron Angle

In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand…

— Miles Millar

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat…

— Mike Myers

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made…

— Han Suyin

The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America…

— William J. Clinton

I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture.…

— Chloe Kim

No matter what, people are so narrow minded that it won't ever be Michelle Rodriguez the actress, it will always be Michelle…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

What 'March' is saying is that it doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino or Asian. It doesn't matter whether…

— John Lewis

“No one can take away my heritage or history. At the same time, it is up to me to discover and embrace…

— The Thoughtful Beast

Every community should have a superhero. And the truth is, for many of us in the Asian community, we didn't grow up…

— Simu Liu

It's very hard as an Asian actress to get seen for anything which isn't specifically Asian in England.

— Jessica Henwick

I'm more Filipino than I am German. I guess I shouldn't be ashamed to say that.

— Pia Wurtzbach

I'm not the Asian kid of 'Riverdale;' I'm Reggie, and I just happen to be Chinese.

— Ross Butler

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

— Bill Maher

I have Asian friends - second generation - and I am the worst in terms of being in touch with my heritage.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand…

— Bharati Mukherjee

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the…

— David Oyelowo

I have to also get into producing if I want to see these stories being made... Let's venture out and do projects…

— Letitia Wright

When I was with PSV Eindhoven in Holland, some people still thought Asian players weren't good enough to play in Europe. It's…

— Park Ji-sung

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not…

— Edgar Ramirez

I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European,…

— Dalai Lama

I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it…

— David Henry Hwang