Quotes from Lana Condor

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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 a hard time expressing myself when I'm emotional, so my family has done this forever. We write each other letters if we're fighting or whatever. And my dad's a writer, but we write each other letters because we feel that it's easier to get out what you're truly saying if you write it down.

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.

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.

Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Iron Man is my most favorite human, character, person in the world.

I like to do yoga because it centers me and makes me realize truly what's important.

Yoga, working out, go to class, group settings where you can't be on your phone, that's a great way to unplug!

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

Dancing is so brutally taxing on your body.

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.

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!