Asian Quote by Aziz Ansari

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

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my…

— John Cho

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

— Constance Wu

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

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a…

— Adrian Tomine

I've played roles that aren't expected of an Asian.

— John Cho

In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and…

— Dante Basco

I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese…

— Ronny Chieng

For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were…

— John Cho

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian…

— Gene Luen Yang

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

— Ronny Chieng

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

— Chloe Bennet