Top 40 Lana Condor Quotes

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.

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!

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

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.

The way ‘TATB’ depicts race, and how it normalizes our differences, is actually one of the things I am most proud of.

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.

It’s hard to tell people how you really, truly feel about them, especially if the feeling is love.

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.

Oh, my God, I love pasta.

MySpace was kind of coming to an end when I got onto social media. So my first experience was with Facebook, and there was, like, a penguin game where you feed your penguins, and you have penguin friends.

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.

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’m a vegetarian, so I have a huge fear of blood.

In my experience, I’ve loved all races. It’s not like I can only be with my people.

Zac Efron! What a man.

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 grew up very American but also fully Asian.

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

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

I don’t think we should be stuck to only loving people based on what they look like.

I’ve never been more aware of my Asianness and femaleness than working in Hollywood.

This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don’t be afraid to be yourself.

When I first started auditioning, I was so, dare I say, desperate and hungry for a job that I pretty much went out for anything my agents sent me with a few exceptions.

I have read the ‘Divergent’ series. I obviously read ‘Harry Potter.’

When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn’t see differences.

Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!

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.

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.

I love ‘The Devil Wears Prada.’

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

I like to make people feel more comfortable, and it’s great to have this platform and be able to shed light on adoption and how it’s a beautiful thing, instead of being tiptoed around.

I honestly dress like a man. Like, I wear sweatpants and T-shirts all the time.

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

I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.

No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there’s something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.

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.

Being an actor is hard. It’s so true… auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.

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.

I think that’s very important, that a friend makes you laugh, and you’re just giddy around them all the time.

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.