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All Quotes by author - Hong Chau

" Americans have a wonderful way of just butchering everyone's names. "

" Asian-Americans, we're not a monolithic group. There might be some Asians who are second-generation, third-generation, who may not speak the language that their parents or their grandparents spoke. "

" For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time. "

" For me, I do my best work when I feel completely relaxed and not being judged. "

" Giving people the opportunity to sit in a dark theater together and have emotions in public, whether they're laughing or crying - that's what makes me happy. "

" Growing up the way I did, being an actor in Hollywood was definitely never a plausible career choice at all. "

" I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter. "

" I did a regional car commercial and an internet potato chip commercial. I was seriously thinking I needed to quit and get a serious job where I can feed myself and it doesn't kill my soul. "

" I don't have any special skills or any hidden talents. I don't. "

" I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice. "

" I don't want anyone to think I took this role in 'Downsizing' because it was the only role available to me. I'm not a passive participant in it. "

" I don't want to put on any gimmicky layers just to give the character more definition. I just want to play good characters. It doesn't matter to me if it's 'open ethnicity' or 'specifically Asian.' "

" If anyone has to leave their homeland by boat, they all have difficult stories. But my parents had a difficult journey, and their story always seems like a movie to me. "

" I fell into acting because I was really shy, and so at night after work, I took public speaking and improv classes, and I started going to auditions sort of as a dare. That was my version of 'Fear Factor.' "

" I grew out of the habit of thinking or worrying about being seen as the typical Asian. I don't even know what that means anymore. I'm not really concerned with it. "

" I grew up around Vietnamese refugees, around people who don't speak English as a first language. "

" I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school. "

" I like to be very simple in my lifestyle. My only extravagance is... I buy lots of toys and meats for my dog. "

" I love Chicago for several reasons, but one of the best is that I was so intrigued that you have wild rabbits running around in the city. I never had seen bunnies in such a large urban environment before. "

" I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit. "

" I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I'd rather sit on a bus or train and read a book. "

" I'm never concerned about being first or on trend. I only want to feel like my most rad 'me.' "

" I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole. "

" I never like to sit and discuss my character, the other character, our relationship, or anything like that. I feel like if I did my job and I trust that the other person has done theirs, you just go on set, play around with it, chew the scene for a little bit; then we roll, and that's it. "

" In Hollywood, there's not a ton of roles for Asian people. So a lot of it is waiting and waiting and waiting. "

" In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways. "

" I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger. "

" I think one in five Americans has a disability of some sort. That's 20% of the population, and yet we rarely ever see people with disabilities on-screen, and their stories and their resilience and their zest for life and their humor and their humanity. "

" I think that a lot of actors of color have said that it's a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn't have a race and that is kind of open to any sort of interpretation. I completely understand that, but at the same time, I just want Asian characters that are well-written. "

" It's nice to have a quiet movie to give you time to meditate on an idea. A lot of movies don't give you the space to feel anything. "

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