Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Lana Condor
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Lana Condor.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.
Dancing is so brutally taxing on your body.
Yoga, working out, go to class, group settings where you can't be on your phone, that's a great way to unplug!
When you're the only woman of color, and you walk into a room of people who don't look like you, most of them with blond hair and blue eyes, it's disheartening. The weirdest part is that I walk in and assume they think I'm auditioning to play a different role than them, but I'm going out for their same role.
When I have a lot of emotion going on, I'll write. I write letters to my family, my boyfriend, anyone I'm trying to get my point across to. It's easier for me to express myself.
If I wasn't acting, I would want to be in the food and restaurant business. I really love to cook and am fascinated by the art of cooking in general.
I hoped that I would be a lead in my career; of course that was a hope of mine. But I never thought I would be so lucky to be the lead of a romcom. Simply because I don't get those opportunities, for probably many reasons, but one of would likely be because I'm Asian.
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.
I don't think people think I'm funny, but in my head, I'm like, 'I am!'
I do a lot of journaling.
Zac Efron! What a man.
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 food shows.
I can only do the best I can from what I read from the book, and hopefully it translates on camera.
I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.
It's so refreshing when I walk in and see a bunch of Asian actresses all competing for the same role because it makes me feel like I have a genuine shot.
When I am driving to an audition, I listen to the 'Hamilton: The Musical' soundtrack. It's super inspiring, but also, if I kind of sing-slash-rap along to it, it helps me with my pronunciation and dialect.
I grew up on 'Spongebob.' If I had known there was an even better cartoon out there like 'X-Men,' you best believe I would have grown up on that.
With 'To All the Boys,' it's not an Asian rom-com. We tried to tell the coming-of-age story of a 16-year-old girl who just happens to be Asian.
I grew up very American but also fully Asian.
High school's weird, man.
I wash my face with Boscia's charcoal cleanser because I think it cleanses really well. And then I spray my face with witch hazel.
What if the Internet breaks tomorrow? Then you'd realize that you're a human being, and you're not validated by what other people think of you - it's how you think of yourself.
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.
My parents would dress us up in traditional Vietnamese clothing to go to school for heritage day. We have a Vietnamese nanny that my parents wanted us to have so we could stay in touch and know where we came from.
Life's too short. Don't be afraid to love and then keep loving and keep loving and doing more loving.
This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don't be afraid to be yourself.
I honestly dress like a man. Like, I wear sweatpants and T-shirts all the time.
I love educating myself on different cultures' dishes and foods that are important and celebrated within that culture. I also think food brings people together. It's unifying!
Oh, in high school, I wore a uniform!
I'm a vegetarian, so I have a huge fear of blood.
I love 'The Devil Wears Prada.'
Whenever I meet someone new, I always extend a hand and say, 'Hi I'm Lana Condor... Condor like the ugly endangered bird.' I like to see how people react to that and if they laugh and, indeed, know what a condor is... chances are we're going to get along just fine!
It's hard to tell people how you really, truly feel about them, especially if the feeling is love.
In middle school, I did the whole, like, 'Do you like me? Check this box yes, check this box no,' I did that to so many crushes; I always got in trouble for passing notes in school.
Casting directors will often say that they are open to any ethnicity, but they're not.
I've had people ask, 'Oh, do you feel like you're spearheading a movement?' And I don't. I feel that it's not just my responsibility to spearhead a whole movement, I feel like it's everyone's responsibility. If we want to see a change, we can't just put it on a couple people.
I quite enjoyed doing 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' because I felt like I got the actual co-ed experience. Because I went to an all-girls school, and that was fun - I love just putting on a uniform and living my life - but I also like to flirt with guys. I didn't get to do that in high school.
When you do action stuff and sci-fi stuff, you have a lot to hide behind - the hair and the makeup and the special effects. But when you play a normal girl, it's challenging because you have to trust yourself.
Love - keep on doing it.
I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'
I have this big, old, oversize Levi's denim jacket, and I honestly think it might be for a dude. And on the back, it says, 'Catch feelings, not waves,' which I love because I'm very emotional.
People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.
Oh, my God, I love pasta.
A lot challenges me! Not psyching myself out, not doubting myself, not comparing myself to others... all of that challenges me. But inevitably, challenges are put into our lives so that we may grow and become the best version of who we are meant to be.
Education is the most powerful tool for everything but certainly to create opportunities for yourself, and I know that not everyone has the privilege of an education like here in America.
I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.
Iron Man is my most favorite human, character, person in the world.
My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.
I've never been more aware of my Asianness and femaleness than working in Hollywood.
People want to laugh. People want to feel good.
One time, I went bodysurfing in St. Bart's with a friend. The waves were so intense, and my body was just getting torn up by them. But it was so freeing... but also I'm never doing that again.
When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn't see differences.
I was so in love with this boy in eighth grade. I really thought he was the one for me, and then he broke up with me because he said that I liked him more than he liked me, and I was living in N.Y. at the time, and I was on the subway just, like, truly heartbroken because when you're that age, you don't think you are ever going to recover.
I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.
I've been very fortunate to have good people in my life, and when you find good people, you gotta hold onto them real tight.
I have written a lot of love letters to the people that I love in my life. It's sweet to be able to keep that, like a tangible letter, and I want to give that to people.
I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.
My background is in dance, but as soon as I found acting and realized that I could entertain people, not just with my body but with what comes out of my mouth, I was into that.
Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!
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