Asian Quotes · Page 11

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

— Julie Chen

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

— Shibani Dandekar

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

— Henry Golding

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.

— Justin Lin

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

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

In Asia, there aren't many characters as iconoclastic as the Monkey King. He's a trickster and contrarian character who works everywhere -…

— Rob Minkoff

Even my novels offer passages in which the major character is imagined as a writer. In Joss and Gold, Li An is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors - men and women - is pretty small, that…

— Tamlyn Tomita

After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses…

— Gabrielle Union

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments…

— Anonymous

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were…

— Salma Hayek

Given the stake that both the U.S. and Europe have in stabilising and sustaining global growth, their policies should be aimed at…

— Sanjaya Baru

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A.,…

— Aasif Mandvi

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood…

— Gong Li

Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you…

— Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Kevin Kwan

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

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

— Margaret Cho

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

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

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

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