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!

Lana Condor

I was so in love with this boy in eighth grade. I really thought he was the one for me, and then he broke up with me because he said that I liked him more than he liked me, and I was living in N.Y. at the time, and I was on the subway just, like, truly heartbroken because when you're that age, you don't think you are ever going to recover.

Lana Condor

Time Love Art

I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.

Lana Condor

Work Love Car

I don't think people think I'm funny, but in my head, I'm like, 'I am!'

Lana Condor

Funny UN Think

People want to laugh. People want to feel good.

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Good Want T

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!

Lana Condor

Love Food Yin

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!

Lana Condor

Chance Anger Whenever

I have written a lot of love letters to the people that I love in my life. It's sweet to be able to keep that, like a tangible letter, and I want to give that to people.

Lana Condor

Love Life Written

My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.

Lana Condor

Food Ways Way

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.

Lana Condor

Love Food Business

People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.

Lana Condor

Romantic Art Wood

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.

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Mom Experience Age

I've never been more aware of my Asianness and femaleness than working in Hollywood.

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Work War Working

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.

Lana Condor

Love Why Whether

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.

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Life Good You

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.

Lana Condor

Art Age Wit

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

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Yoga Use Us

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.

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Trust Yourself Yours

People should be able to love who they want to love.

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Love Who Want

I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.

Lana Condor

Age Writers Writer

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.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

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

Lana Condor

Zac Efron! What a man.

Lana Condor

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

Lana Condor

Life's too short. Don't be afraid to love and then keep loving and keep loving and doing more loving.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

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

Lana Condor

It's hard to tell people how you really, truly feel about them, especially if the feeling is love.

Lana Condor

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

Lana Condor

I'm a vegetarian, so I have a huge fear of blood.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!

Lana Condor

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

Lana Condor

Oh, in high school, I wore a uniform!

Lana Condor

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

Lana Condor

I could've gone to prom... or I could've done 'X-Men.'

Lana Condor

High school's weird, man.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

I quite enjoyed doing 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' because I felt like I got the actual co-ed experience. Because I went to an all-girls school, and that was fun - I love just putting on a uniform and living my life - but I also like to flirt with guys. I didn't get to do that in high school.

Lana Condor

I don't think we should be stuck to only loving people based on what they look like.

Lana Condor

I do a lot of journaling.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

One time, I went bodysurfing in St. Bart's with a friend. The waves were so intense, and my body was just getting torn up by them. But it was so freeing... but also I'm never doing that again.

Lana Condor

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.

Lana Condor

When I have a lot of emotion going on, I'll write. I write letters to my family, my boyfriend, anyone I'm trying to get my point across to. It's easier for me to express myself.

Lana Condor

My background is in dance, but as soon as I found acting and realized that I could entertain people, not just with my body but with what comes out of my mouth, I was into that.

Lana Condor