Actor Quote by Karan Soni

I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes they'll write…

— Adam Beach

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully…

— Forest Whitaker

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot…

— Corey Reynolds

Casting directors will often say that they are open to any ethnicity, but they're not.

— Lana Condor

As soon as you start looking into roles which are specifically Asian, Black, or Latina, you start looking at stereotypes. That's the issue minority…

— Jessica Henwick

There's a desire now to have multi-ethnic casts in many, many things, even in costume drama, which I'm very, very pleased about.

— Paterson Joseph

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

— Darren Aronofsky

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

— Justin Chon

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

— Nicole Ari Parker

We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.

— Elodie Yung

It's really taking a while but I do think it's becoming more acceptable to cast Asians in roles that weren't originally slated for someone…

— Lucy Liu

It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You know what,…

— Justin Chon