Ancestor Quote by Olivia Williams

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

— Lana Condor

My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone.

— Raquel Welch

I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

— Miranda Otto

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

— Trevor McDonald

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

— Lisa See

I'm kind of a mutt: My dad's Persian, my mother is Spanish, and I was born in Texas. Growing up, all I wanted to…

— Sarah Shahi

I'm fortunate to belong to a multi-cultural family... My mom's an Anglo Indian, dad's a Gujarati.

— Ayesha Takia

I think everyone wants to know why I look like this. These jokes I make about looking Chinese... My mother's from Hungary and my…

— Michael McIntyre

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in…

— Wentworth Miller

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

— KT Tunstall

When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have…

— Nicolas Cage

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

— Diane Ackerman