About Quote by Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

— Ross Butler

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

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 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

Something I love about 'Teen Wolf' is that my character is written in as just a normal girl. She could have been any ethnicity;…

— Arden Cho

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

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

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

— Darren Aronofsky

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.

— Jimmy O. Yang

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 don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to…

— Sarita Choudhury

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel…

— Lauren London