Asians Quotes

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

— Kiana Tom

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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

— Bill Maher

Now it's time for amasians... That's Asians doing something amazing.

— Daniel Tosh

Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to.

— Mehdi Hasan

I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Somewhere in the Commandments of Reviewing must be written, 'Thou shalt not compare Asians to non-Asians.'

— Celeste Ng

I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap.

— Mirai Nagasu

One stereotype I get a lot as an Asian actress is that you're playing the model minority - that Asians are the…

— Jessica Henwick

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

— Yani Tseng

In 'Crazy Rich Asians,' Singapore will be seen as it should be seen, without CGI, without the altering of the images to…

— Henry Golding

I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that…

— Steven Yeun

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with…

— Lee Kuan Yew

'Crazy Rich Asians' may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I've had an unparalleled view into the very…

— Kevin Kwan

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people…

— Coco Lee

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants…

— Tahar Rahim

The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality…

— Lavrenti Lopes

I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You…

— Moeen Ali

In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it…

— Orhan Pamuk

I think when people talk about race relations in America, they talk about African-American and white people. Asians are not often brought…

— Ronny Chieng

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

Quite honestly, I never thought it would be possible for Asians to make it in the States. But now I feel like…

— Henry Lau

For the most part, the roles Asians can get aren't necessarily well-rounded, and more often than not, they're stereotypes. But that's all…

— Brian Tee

Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians…

— Malik Yusef

You turn on the television, you go to the movies, you don't see a lot of Asians. So you have to deal…

— John Cho

“There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the number of Asians in England, by…

— Stephen Fry

You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through.

— Henry Golding

I never thought an opportunity like 'Crazy Rich Asians' would ever come my way.

— Nico Santos

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

— Jack Kornfield

I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.

— Daniel Radcliffe

For the American culture to evolve and include Asians is so amazing.

— Mirai Nagasu

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

— John Cho

My main priorities were to fight for Britain. Not a lot of Asians get selected for this country at anything, and it's…

— Amir Khan

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do…

— John Cho

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

Few politicians and analysts understand the very real fault lines among Asian sub-groups: Some Asians have done very well for themselves. A…

— Alex Wagner

If I'm privileged to be elected, I'd be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

As a small kid from Texas, I just imagined that Hollywood was this world that was really foreign and far away and…

— Eugene Lee Yang

Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot's producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we…

— Dalai Lama