Asian famous quotes

There are no Asian movie stars
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Stars #Asian #Movie Star

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Wine #Asian #Program

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
-- Amy Chua

#Parent #Asian #Honest

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
-- Arto Lindsay

#People #Asian #Elements

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
-- ASAP Rocky

#White #Black #Asian

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Asian #Want #Fields

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
-- Bai Ling

#Two #Directors #Asian

The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Creative #Asian #Cuisine

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'
-- Brenda Song

#Math #Asian #Jokes

I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.
-- Brett Ratner

#Asian #Olivia #Problem

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.
-- Chad Hugo

#Opportunity #Trying #Asian

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
-- Chang-Rae Lee

#Offering #Perfect #Asian

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
-- Chris Lilley

#Australia #Asian #Dresses

While there I began to study the Asian religions as theories of mind.
-- Daniel Goleman

#Mind #Asian #Study

That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.
-- Daniel Tosh

#Funny #Guy #Asian

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either
-- Eddie Huang

#White #People #Asian

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is
-- Edward James Olmos

#African American #Asian #Way

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.
-- Elton Gallegly

#Country #Asian #Delicacy

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
-- Eric Liu

#Numbers #Asian #Minorities

I will never forget my ASIAN fans, because they're so welcome with me, its my best moment ever
-- Greyson Chance

#Fans #Asian #Welcome

We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.
-- Ichiro Ozawa

#Asian #Needs #Diplomacy

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
-- Iris Chang

#Barbie #Asian

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
-- Jackie Chan

#Asian #Film #Audience

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.
-- James Iha

#People #Asian #Stereotype

But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.
-- James Iha

#Who I Am #Asian #Looks

There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.
-- Jasmine Trias

#Mold #Asian #Want

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
-- Jeremy Lin

#Role Models #Community #Asian

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

#College #Asian #Stereotype

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
-- Jeremy Lin

#Support #Community #Asian

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.
-- Jeremy Lin

#Kids #Asian #Target

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'
-- Jo Koy

#Orange #Asian #Compliment

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.
-- John Cho

#Nice #Asian #Actors

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
-- Joseph Jarman

#Sound #Asian #Limits

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.
-- Jourdan Dunn

#Cooking #Asian #Recipes

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.
-- Jourdan Dunn

#Girl #Black #Asian

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Thinking #Asian #Causes

Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Blood #Asian #East

The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.
-- Lee Westwood

#Events #Asian #Singapore

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
-- Lisa Ling

#Asian #Culture #Taught

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.
-- Maggie Q

#Girl #Fighting #Asian

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.
-- Malcolm Gladwell

#People #Asian #Different

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
-- Martha Beck

#Philosophy #Chinese #Asian

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
-- Martin Yan

#Chinese #World #Asian

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.
-- Ming-Na Wen

#Agents #Asian #Roles

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.
-- Moon Bloodgood

#White #Melting #Asian

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.
-- Nathan Adrian

#Sports #Asian #Professional Sports

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.
-- Richard Ernst

#Art #Asian #Nepal

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

#Asian #Watches #Alive

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.
-- Sandra Oh

#Parent #Goes On #Asian

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
-- Sarah Michelle Gellar

#Play #Asian #Culture

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
-- Ted Allen

#Cooking #Noodles #Asian

The majority of my blood is Asian.
-- Tiger Woods

#Blood #Majority #Asian

I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.
-- Trevor Phillips

#People #Black #Asian

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.
-- William C. Kirby

#Important #Asian #Actors

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
-- Yelawolf

#Struggle #Asian #Relate

I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV. Really, I just drove my car right into the guardrail, figured I'd save him some time.
-- Alonzo Bodden

#Men #Car #Asian

You can't be invisible being Asian. You can't say "Hi, I'm white!"
-- Arthur Dong

#White #Asian #Invisible

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.
-- Charlemagne Palestine

#People #Asian #Bells

Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.
-- Guido Palau

#Thinking #Asian #Culture

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.
-- Henry Cho

#People #Southern #Asian

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "
-- Henry Rosovsky

#Moving #College #Asian

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.
-- Li Peng

#Country #Asian #Development

It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.
-- Miles Millar

#Technology #Challenges #Asian

Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.
-- Pearl Tan

#Kids #Cutting #Asian

There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.
-- Randall Park

#People #Asian #Stereotype

As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.
-- Reggie Lee

#Asian #Pilots #Asian American

It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
-- Sanjeev Bhaskar

#Asian #World #Comedy

Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
-- Sanjeev Bhaskar

#Weekend #Asian #Different

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.
-- Scott Derrickson

#Art #Asian #Cinema

Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on indirectness, avoidance of conflict and keeping things close to your chest. So that has led to quite a lot of cultural misunderstandings in dealing with this East Asian culture I live in.
-- Sean Michael Wilson

#Japan #Focus #Asian

My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.
-- Vijay Iyer

#Asian #Way #Music Is

If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.
-- Brad Williams

#People #Black #Asian

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.
-- Adrian Tomine

#Character #Trying #Asian

I would also love to visit the Asian countries soon.
-- Matt Lanter

#Country #Asian #Asian Countries

Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
-- Takashi Murakami

#Teacher #Thinking #Asian

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.
-- John Cho

#Men #Asian #Cinema

The show definitely has a romantic construct, and that's a genre that I've never had access to, in a significant way. This interesting for me to see, as an Asian guy, just standing back. I just wanted to break my way into a different genre. I was tickled that it was offered to me.
-- John Cho

#Interesting #Guy #Asian

You don't really see Asian men together very often. It's very rare in life.
-- John Cho

#Men #Together #Asian