Character Quote by Lily Gladstone

Being of Indian heritage is a challenge - and it's a blessing as well sometimes - because being good isn't good enough. You have…

— Sacha Dhawan

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

— Tiya Sircar

Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in…

— Sarita Choudhury

I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often it didn't.

— Katy Jurado

I have played various kinds of roles. There are various territories that I have explored as an actor.

— Javed Jaffrey

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States -…

— Andrea Martin

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

— Tanushree Dutta

I'm liking that when I'm now walking into generals and hearing about the scope of characters that are out there for Indigenous actors to…

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Darren Aronofsky

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being…

— Kelsey Chow

I think, because of my background, which is slightly more exotic than the average British actor, I think, I sort of occupied this little…

— Alfred Molina

I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the…

— Karen Fukuhara