Character Quote by Arden Cho

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

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character…

— Ming-Na Wen

I think that a lot of actors of color have said that it's a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn't have a…

— Hong Chau

My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school…

— Constance Wu

I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are…

— Eden Robinson

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our…

— Adrian Tomine

The fact that I'm able to portray these complex, fully realized, queer Asian characters? I never thought it would be in this position. You…

— Nico Santos

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting…

— Archie Panjabi

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've never been…

— Tess Gerritsen

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty.…

— Margaret Cho