Birkenstocks are highly underrated. They are so comfortable.
— Lana Condor
I like to do yoga because it centers me and makes me realize truly what's important.
I could've gone to prom... or I could've done 'X-Men.'
The way 'TATB' depicts race, and how it normalizes our differences, is actually one of the things I am most proud of.
I don't think we should be stuck to only loving people based on what they look like.
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.
I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.
No one writes each other letters anymore, but I think there's something so special about receiving a really heartfelt letter, still.
I have this big, old, oversize Levi's denim jacket, and I honestly think it might be for a dude. And on the back, it says, 'Catch feelings, not waves,' which I love because I'm very emotional.
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.
People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.
I can only do the best I can from what I read from the book, and hopefully it translates on camera.
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.
I grew up very American but also fully Asian.
I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.
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.
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.
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.
Yoga, working out, go to class, group settings where you can't be on your phone, that's a great way to unplug!
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 truly believe the reason why there is a demand for rom-coms is because humans, whether its conscious or subconscious, have a need to feel happy and to see love.
In my experience, I've loved all races. It's not like I can only be with my people.
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'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.
Oh, in high school, I wore a uniform!
I've never been more aware of my Asianness and femaleness than working in Hollywood.
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.
I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.
People want to laugh. People want to feel good.
When you do action stuff and sci-fi stuff, you have a lot to hide behind - the hair and the makeup and the special effects. But when you play a normal girl, it's challenging because you have to trust yourself.
I don't think people think I'm funny, but in my head, I'm like, 'I am!'
I'm a vegetarian, so I have a huge fear of blood.
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.
What if the Internet breaks tomorrow? Then you'd realize that you're a human being, and you're not validated by what other people think of you - it's how you think of yourself.
I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.
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.
Hollywood screwed up in the past. They made Asians the other - a separate group that could only hang out with each other.
People should be able to love who they want to love.
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 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 honestly dress like a man. Like, I wear sweatpants and T-shirts all the time.
Casting directors will often say that they are open to any ethnicity, but they're not.
I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'
I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.
My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.
Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!
I do a lot of journaling.
Iron Man is my most favorite human, character, person in the world.
