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AS GOOD AS IT GETS When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea...
GRACE LEE BOGGS Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one ha...
CHRIS LILLEY As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
AL D'AMATO![]()
It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New...
ELLEN BARKIN The Chinese Student Association at Cornell put together their own play. It was all Asian people in t...
ATO ESSANDOH Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated o...
MING-NA WEN As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a r...
IAN ANTHONY DALE Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Holl...
DANIEL WU![]()
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is acc...
BRIAN DENNEHY I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself ...
ADRIAN TOMINE![]()
Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyp...
GEORGE TAKEI![]()
I've been enormously lucky [in my career] ... and certainly the capper on the string of luck was me...
GEORGE TAKEI People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
PINO CARUSO California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
YI SO-YEON As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the bl...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile...
ALFRED HAMILTON BARR As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, L...
DANIEL SUNJATA It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand...
MARGARET CHO 'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.
ROSS BUTLER It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do i...
NOEMIE LENOIR I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
DWAYNE HICKMAN When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the foca...
MARK TAKANO As an American, that offends me.
RON HECK![]()
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a fem...
TESS GERRITSEN It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
DANIEL WU![]()
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that ...
TAYLOR SWIFT The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredib...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.
FRANK LUNTZ More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-...
AWKWAFINA![]()
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of a...
JENNY ZHANG![]()
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
JACKIE CHAN People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring...
ESSIE DAVIS I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
ORI GERSHT Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this...
DAVID BAUTISTA I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an America...
ELAINE SCIOLINO![]()
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY![]()
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.
TOM BROKAW An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African...
GEORGE CRUMB![]()
I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
FRED KOREMATSU As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other ba...
ROSS BUTLER Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT![]()
I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I'm an American.
FRED KOREMATSU Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as we...
CHANEL IMAN It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm j...
BENEDICT WONG![]()
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR![]()
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a ...
GENE TIERNEY Missing Justin's senior year was something that was hard for me. I have coached Justin since he was ...
BRUCE CUNNINGHAM I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou...
NADIA ALI In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'...
DANNY RIMER I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
LAURA Z. HOBSON![]()
It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emp...
ALEX TIZON I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.
FRANK LAMPARD It was a call that you always hope for, but you never really expect it to happen. I didn't think it ...
BRUCE SUTTER Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethni...
ASLAN MASKHADOV I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH![]()
I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think ...
ABBY WAMBACH![]()
My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG![]()
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as ...
SUE MONK KIDD![]()
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I me...
JOHN LENNON![]()
I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interne...
FRED KOREMATSU My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid ...
ALEXANDER CHEE It didn't really feel as special as it should have felt scoring over 1,000 points. I think that was ...
CAITLIN MALCOLM![]()
He was committed and generous. Slowly, he won me over. He was very respectful of me as a woman and a...
SALMA HAYEK Love can make even nice people do awful things.
JUDE DEVERAUX![]()
An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as...
JACK WHITE![]()
The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and...
CHLOE SEVIGNY![]()
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved ...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
VENES It would have been one thing if it was an accident. This is hard to see as an accidental thing. It's...
LINDA BUSH![]()
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act...
AMITABH BACHCHAN Because I look Asian, when I am showing in Europe or North America, people tend to approach my work ...
ED PIEN![]()
I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'...
AASIF MANDVI![]()
I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible ...
LINDSAY LOHAN![]()
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery,...
BHARATI MUKHERJEE![]()
I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't thi...
MINDY KALING People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy endi...
JULIA L. ROBERTS As an African-American, you think of slavery as being associated with (our people). But here you rea...
JOHN JONES![]()
I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.
GENE RODDENBERRY![]()
I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting c...
KATEE SACKHOFF![]()
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify...
JANICE DICKINSON![]()
It wasn't the Mayflower. It wasn't the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reun...
ELAINE CHAO I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.
ALICE TEMPERLEY![]()
As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid,...
FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN I pushed very hard for him to take the job. He was with me as an assistant for a few years prior and...
JOE NORTH![]()
I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that...
NICOLAS CAGE The party needs him and, for all I know, the nation needs him. There hasn't been an African-American...
STEPHEN HESS I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th...
YUNJIN KIM![]()
An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
RACHAEL TAYLOR I definitely have been approached and reached out to by a lot of young Asian American and Asian wome...
PHILLIPA SOO I think it'd be awesome. I think learning behind Brett Favre -- I'd try to make him stay as long as ...
J.P. LOSMAN Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditionin...
JONATHAN LAPAGLIA As a woman, I just don't think it's safe for me to walk Franklin Street alone.
ANN NELSON There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. WONG As he left, he decided not to go back, as it was too easy to lose himself in there, as if the woman ...
SARAH HOLMAN When you have nothing nobody knows you. When you have something everyone knows you. If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX
AS GOOD AS IT GETS When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea...
GRACE LEE BOGGS Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one ha...
CHRIS LILLEY As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
AL D'AMATO
It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New... ELLEN BARKIN The Chinese Student Association at Cornell put together their own play. It was all Asian people in t...
ATO ESSANDOH Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated o...
MING-NA WEN As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a r...
IAN ANTHONY DALE Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Holl...
DANIEL WU
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is acc... BRIAN DENNEHY I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself ...
ADRIAN TOMINE
Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyp... GEORGE TAKEI
I've been enormously lucky [in my career] ... and certainly the capper on the string of luck was me... GEORGE TAKEI People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.
PINO CARUSO California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
YI SO-YEON As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the bl...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile...
ALFRED HAMILTON BARR As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, L...
DANIEL SUNJATA It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand...
MARGARET CHO 'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.
ROSS BUTLER It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do i...
NOEMIE LENOIR I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
DWAYNE HICKMAN When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the foca...
MARK TAKANO As an American, that offends me.
RON HECK
My brother often complains to me about the 'angry Asian male' in the United States. As a fem... TESS GERRITSEN It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
DANIEL WU
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that ... TAYLOR SWIFT The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredib...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.
FRANK LUNTZ More than anything, I'm an American kid, and my music reflects that more so than being an Asian-...
AWKWAFINA
Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of a... JENNY ZHANG
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences. JACKIE CHAN People who don't know how old I am can cast me as the woman in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring...
ESSIE DAVIS I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
ORI GERSHT Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this...
DAVID BAUTISTA I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an America...
ELAINE SCIOLINO
What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. TOM BROKAW An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African...
GEORGE CRUMB
I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else. FRED KOREMATSU As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other ba...
ROSS BUTLER Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
DASHIELL HAMMETT
I was really upset because I was branded as an enemy alien when I'm an American. FRED KOREMATSU Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as we...
CHANEL IMAN It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm j...
BENEDICT WONG
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a ... GENE TIERNEY Missing Justin's senior year was something that was hard for me. I have coached Justin since he was ...
BRUCE CUNNINGHAM I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou...
NADIA ALI In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'...
DANNY RIMER I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
LAURA Z. HOBSON
It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emp... ALEX TIZON I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.
FRANK LAMPARD It was a call that you always hope for, but you never really expect it to happen. I didn't think it ...
BRUCE SUTTER Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethni...
ASLAN MASKHADOV I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH
I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think ... ABBY WAMBACH
My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, ... KELLEY ARMSTRONG
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as ... SUE MONK KIDD
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I me... JOHN LENNON
I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interne... FRED KOREMATSU My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid ...
ALEXANDER CHEE It didn't really feel as special as it should have felt scoring over 1,000 points. I think that was ...
CAITLIN MALCOLM
He was committed and generous. Slowly, he won me over. He was very respectful of me as a woman and a... SALMA HAYEK Love can make even nice people do awful things.
JUDE DEVERAUX
An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as... JACK WHITE
The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and... CHLOE SEVIGNY
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved ... SUSAN B. ANTHONY Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
VENES It would have been one thing if it was an accident. This is hard to see as an accidental thing. It's...
LINDA BUSH
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act... AMITABH BACHCHAN Because I look Asian, when I am showing in Europe or North America, people tend to approach my work ...
ED PIEN
I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'... AASIF MANDVI
I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible ... LINDSAY LOHAN
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery,... BHARATI MUKHERJEE
I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't thi... MINDY KALING People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy endi...
JULIA L. ROBERTS As an African-American, you think of slavery as being associated with (our people). But here you rea...
JOHN JONES
I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way. GENE RODDENBERRY
I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting c... KATEE SACKHOFF
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify...
JANICE DICKINSON
It wasn't the Mayflower. It wasn't the Love Boat. But it brought us to this magical country and reun... ELAINE CHAO I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible.
ALICE TEMPERLEY
As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid,... FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN I pushed very hard for him to take the job. He was with me as an assistant for a few years prior and...
JOE NORTH
I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that... NICOLAS CAGE The party needs him and, for all I know, the nation needs him. There hasn't been an African-American...
STEPHEN HESS I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th...
YUNJIN KIM
An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless. RACHAEL TAYLOR I definitely have been approached and reached out to by a lot of young Asian American and Asian wome...
PHILLIPA SOO I think it'd be awesome. I think learning behind Brett Favre -- I'd try to make him stay as long as ...
J.P. LOSMAN Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditionin...
JONATHAN LAPAGLIA As a woman, I just don't think it's safe for me to walk Franklin Street alone.
ANN NELSON There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. WONG As he left, he decided not to go back, as it was too easy to lose himself in there, as if the woman ...
SARAH HOLMAN When you have nothing nobody knows you. When you have something everyone knows you. If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX
The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and... 
Once we are aware that our nudity makes us objects of desire, we become naked. 
I am beginning to remember what it means to need things. Laughter. Companionship. Love. "
My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, wh... 
Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting,... 
Oh please," Scout said."Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone ... 
Just as the act of love should never be rushed – except between floors in an elevator, or with a s... 
Go ahead,” I told him. “Go see your admirers. Sign some autographs. It’s good PR for the House... 