Chinese Quote by Nigel Ng

I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My father was very against me being in…

— Lauren Tom

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a…

— Phillip Lim

I'm very proud of my background, but it wasn't easy for me to grow up as a Chinese in America.

— Lucy Liu

My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.

— Simu Liu

For years, my Chinese family supported me, but they wanted me to have an arranged marriage, so I ran away and worked as a…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling…

— Richard Rodriguez

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early…

— Martha Beck

I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be a diplomat,…

— Bunker Roy

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became…

— Rodney Brooks

In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in…

— Gail Bradbrook

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

— Daniel Wu