78 Quotes by Lana Condor

My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.

People want to laugh. People want to feel good.

There's a misconception that I can't relate to the quote-unquote 'Asian-American experience' because I didn't grow up with an Asian mom and dad. And that's just not true. I am Asian American, and so playing a girl who is half Korean, half white, but her white dad tried really hard to connect with her mom's heritage - that's very familiar to me.

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

I can only do the best I can from what I read from the book, and hopefully it translates on camera.

I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'

YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.

People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.

Casting directors will often say that they are open to any ethnicity, but they're not.