Asian Quotes · Page 25

I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.'

— Ross Butler

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

— Chris Lilley

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

— Dev Patel

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

— Bjork

You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"

— Arthur Dong

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

When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap,…

— Jenny Han

I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV.…

— Alonzo Bodden

I'm not the standard Asian girl.

— CL

I do hope that my voice can be heard and that I can represent not only my district but also represent the…

— Young Kim

Asian fans chase me and shout; it is different in England.

— Park Ji-sung

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

— Benigno Aquino III

I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian...…

— Jessica Alba

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what…

— Jeremy Lin

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in…

— Margaret Cho

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than…

— Brice Marden

Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a…

— Tina Fey

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Now, there are more and more Asian models and opportunities to understand Asian beauty.

— Liu Wen

I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's…

— Mike Birbiglia

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

— Jeffrey Kluger