John Cho Quotes

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Demographically, socially, and culturally, the re-conquest of the Southwest United States … is well underway.

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

The Master of Ceremonies in 'Bridge and Tunnel' is a wonderful man, if I do say so myself. I talk about all the characters in the third person. But, he is a really congenial... just a good stand-up guy, who happens to be Pakistani-American. He's been here for years.

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

My father was born in Denmark. He came to this country when he was 12 years old.

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.

Being an Indian in the U.S. and growing up in the suburbs were the two things that really shaped my outlook.

I'm a first-generation Japanese immigrant.

I grew up in an immigrant household with an Italian father who came to the U.S. when he was 15.

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since my story is similar in a lot of ways.

I'm the granddaughter of immigrants.

There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War.