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" We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it. "

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" Part of me, even when I was trying to get acting jobs, I was still kind of thinking, 'Oh I should do something else with my life.' "

Hong Chau

Thinking

My Life

" My first job out of college was at PBS as an administrative assistant. I thought I would be on the production side of things. "

" 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.' "

" 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 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 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. "

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

Hong Chau

Only

Dog

" When you see something that needs to be done, you do it. "

" 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. "

Hong Chau

Movies

You

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

" 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. "

" My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak with an accent. Accents in a vacuum aren't a problem; it's how you portray those characters and how well they're served in a script. "

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

" That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers. "

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

Hong Chau

Appreciate

Own

" People who I've encountered who have had more given to them, they tend to be more disappointed and unable to carry on when something doesn't go their way, and that's not my parents. "

" 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 walk on eggshells, and I care too much about what people think, and I'm afraid to ask for things. "

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

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

" Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there. "

Hong Chau

Joy

Time

" On 'Downsizing,' I had a trailer, and I got to bring my dog to work, and I thought, 'I've made it: I'm bringing my dog to work.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Hong Chau

Want

" 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. "

" When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents. "