Asian American Quotes - Page 1

It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
Daniel Wu /
Asian American
Star
Objective
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As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.
Reggie Lee / Film Actor
Asian
Asian American
Pilots
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Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.
Payal Kadakia /
Asian American
Models
Role Models
Growing Up Up Role
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The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.
John Cho / Actor
Asian American
Vulgarity
Respond
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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
Mako /
Asian American
Act
Actor
People Say
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I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Thankful
Asian
Asian American
Community
Honored
Support
Very
Humbled
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Being the only Asian-American in the State Legislature, I've had no choice but to reach across the aisle.
Grace Meng / United States Representative
Aisle
Asian American
Legislature
No Choice
State Legislature
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Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999.
Kelvin Yu /
Asian American
Lament
Rooms
Audition
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Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
Ali Wong /
Advice
Asian American
Brothers And Sisters
Veteran
Vietnam
Useful
Brothers
Sisters
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When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.
Jon M. Chu / Film Director
Asian American
Exploring
Finishing
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I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.
George Takei / Actor
Asian American
Governors
Board
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I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.
Adrian Tomine / Illustrator
Asian American
Cartoonist
Glasses
Myself Never More
Wears
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I worked at ILM the same time Masi Oka was there. Who would have thought that two Asian-American nerds from ILM would be on hit shows?
Grant Imahara / Television Personality
Asian American
Hit
Nerds
Same Time
Worked
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To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
Justin Chon / Actor
Asian American
Folk Music
Phony
Love Music Support
Folk
To Be Honest
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Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Advantage
Asian
Asian American
College
Harvard
Stereotype
Coming
Draft
Stereotypes
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With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.
Celeste Ng / Writer
Asian American
Labeled
Pigeon-Holed
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Danny Chung in 'Veep' is a really unique, very anti-stereotypical role for an Asian-American actor, and being able to play that has been super fun.
Randall Park / Actor
Asian American
Fun
Unique
Actor
Danny
Role
Super
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A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
Robert Morgan / Writer
Alive
Asian
Asian American
Break Through
Surprising
Thrilling
Watches
Stereotypes
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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
Maya Lin / Designer
Artist
Asian American
Denmark
Growing Up
Little Bit
Prejudice
White
Abroad
Occur
Studying
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The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by a white man.
Jamie Chung / Film Actress
Asian American
Distress
Narrative
Needs
Saved
White
Actress
Anymore
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It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.
Jenny Zhang /
Asian American
Bookstore
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I've gotten scholarships from the Asian-American Directors Guild of America society and things like that, and those things helped me, even if I didn't realize how much.
Jon M. Chu / Film Director
Asian American
Guild
Scholarships
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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, though? It just comes with the territory, being ethnic.
Justin Chon / Actor
Asian American
Territory
Ethnic
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I think there's a misconception that all Asian-American experiences are the same. My experiences with my family and the way they wanted me to know my culture are not the same as others.
Lana Condor /
Asian American
Misconception
Family Culture Me
Experiences
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My goal is, no matter what genre or story, I'll find a personal angle. It doesn't have to be autobiographical, or specifically Asian-American. It has to explore a burning question that I have.
Lulu Wang /
Angle
Asian American
Burning
Genre
Autobiographical
Explore
Personal
Question
Specifically
Story
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I feel that its important for me to be out there and to represent the face. At the same time, for me as an individual, I think the Asian-American face can be crowded with the American identity.
Awkwafina /
American Identity
Asian American
Crowded
Identity
Individual
Time Face Me
Represent
Same Time
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I ended up going into the Master's program for Asian-American studies at UCLA, in part because I was passionate about it, but also because I wanted to keep acting in the theater group that we founded.
Randall Park / Actor
Asian American
Ucla
Master
Studies
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
Bharati Mukherjee / Writer
Dream
America
Asian American
Citizens
Race
Rejection
Treachery
Deliver
Equally
Promises
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I always felt that just being an actor is difficult. Being an Asian-American actor doesn't make it more difficult. I see it as an opportunity and a chance to help other Asian-American actors coming along.
Keiko Agena /
Asian American
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I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what it was like to be different, to always want to fit in and never feel like you ever could.
Tess Gerritsen / Md
Girl
Asian American
Chinese
Fit
Growing
Growing Up
San Diego
School
Understood
White
Always Feel Never
Be Different
Diego
Feel School Always
San
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More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-American. I think it's important but also something that can detrimental to your career if celebrated too much.
Awkwafina /
Asian American
Detrimental
Music Your Important
Celebrated
More Than Anything
Reflects
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As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
Ian Anthony Dale / Actor
Asian American
Status Quo
Perceptions
Quo
Settle
Status
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I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.
John Cho / Actor
Artistic
Asian American
Feels
Hollywood
Reason
Actor
Prefer
Wrong
Entered
Reasons
Says
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Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.
Jenny Zhang /
Adulthood
Asian American
Limits
Experienced
Immigrant
Minority
Opened
Possibilities
Reinforced
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The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.
Jenny Han / Writer
Asian American
Feedback
Love Family Amazing
Embraced
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Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe - these leading men. These are the ones I grew up with. And Hugh Jackman. I love everything that these guys are doing. It's kind of been my mission to be an Asian-American version of that.
Ross Butler /
Asian American
Brad
Al
Al Pacino
Version
Brad Pitt
Hugh
Mission
Leading
Pitt
Russell
Russell Crowe
Tom
Tom Hanks
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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 stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!
Karen Fukuhara /
Asian American
Ethnicity
Martial Arts
Ninja
Accountant
Arts
Doctor
Master
Martial
Stereotypical
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While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American - when all of us stand together.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Asian American
Black And White
Busy
Clinton
Insulting
Latino
Native
Native American
Stronger
Trump
White
Donald
Donald Trump
Group
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Strengths
Understands
Yes
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I have minor characters who are Asian-American, and I've been using them throughout my career, but they've never taken center stage, they've never been really powerful, they've never expressed some of the experiences I had growing up in the U.S. Johnny Tam is the first one.
Tess Gerritsen / Md
Asian American
Powerful
Stage
Taken
Center
Experiences
Expressed
First One
Johnny
Minor
Throughout
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I know certainly that my parents sacrificed a lot to come to America, and to... start a new life for their family and their future families. At least with first-generation Asian-American immigrants, parents put so much risk in work and to provide the best for their children.
Jonny Kim /
Asian American
Immigrants
New Life
Life Best Family
Life Best Future
Sacrificed
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For the longest time, the Asian-American community would talk about representation, but I think it's also about the freedom to really shape, create, and explore issues that are important to us, regardless of whether it's positive or negative, as long as it's three dimensional.
Justin Lin / Film Director
Asian American
Representation
Longest
Longest Time
Regardless
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I have hidden my race for 22 books. I have hidden behind my married name, which is very Caucasian, because I didn't feel safe coming out with it. I didn't feel that the market would really accept me. I think I felt it's time to start bringing in an Asian-American point of view.
Tess Gerritsen / Md
Asian American
Caucasian
Married
Point Of View
Safe
Time Start Me
Accept
Bringing
Hidden
Time View Me
Market
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When I arrived at the Capitol in 2007 to take my oath as a new member of the U.S. House of Representatives, I had the privilege of filling the seat held for so long and so well by my friend Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. I was so grateful to her.
Mazie Hirono / United States Senator
Asian American
Capitol
Filling
House Of Representatives
Mink
Oath
Representatives
Seat
My Friend
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Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.
Constance Wu /
Asian American
Boat
Enlightening
Women Me Important
Fresh
Paying
Rent
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Seriously, how many times do you see Asian-American characters that have an actual family, feelings? You don't see them love and be sad and have all the human emotions. I think that 'Gilmore Girls' is one of the very, very few where we were offered a chance to explore these characters multidimensionally.
Emily Kuroda /
Asian American
Gilmore Girls
Human Emotions
Actual
Explore
How Many Times
Offered
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The more visibility, the more opportunities for Asian-American actors to play great roles. It goes to the studios opening up roles they might not have considered Asian actors for. The talent is there. I don't think there needs to be one superstar, but having more roles open up, that's the way changes happen.
Nahnatchka Khan /
Asian American
Opening
Studios
Superstar
Visibility
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The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that's in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.
Jessica Williams /
Asian American
Isolated
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My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a female, I haven't encountered this, but Asian-American men are angry. They're angry because, for so many years, they've been neglected as sex symbols. Asian women have it much easier, I think; we're accepted into various circles.
Tess Gerritsen / Md
Accepted
Angry
Asian American
Circles
Neglected
Men Women Sex
Male
Complains
Encountered
Women Men Sex
So Many Years
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My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.
David Henry Hwang / Playwright
Asian American
Controversial
Etc
Point Of View
Work Always Community
Obligated
Segments
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