Quotes

I'm OK with having an Asian aspect if it's done in a genuine way. I'm not OK with someone writing the Asian experience for an Asian character. Like, that's annoying and I make it very clear, I don't ever go out for auditions where I feel like I'm making a minstrel out of our people.

Pretending to be a rich person is probably the hardest acting I've ever had to do. Crazy Rich Asians teaches audiences that that world doesn't end in Beverly Hills. It's even more extravagant out there. When you're in Singapore, you feel this air of opulence everywhere. I really wish I was as rich as (my character) Peik Lin.

When you're playing a live-action character, you're confined to that dimensionality. But playing something as big as Sisu, you're given the ability to go into that skin; there were a lot of points when I felt 'big'. Hopefully not a couple of tonnes heavy and powerful and could do things I couldn't do as a human. It was a powerful feeling.

[on how she got her stage name] I was looking for a pretty stupid name, I just thought it was a funny name. And it was fitting that it had 'awkward' in it, because I am awkward.

[After being told that the film Crazy Rich Asians is the first American produced film to feature a cast consisting of Asian American actors since The Joy Luck Club] That's a full adult life since Asian-Americans received adequate representation [onscreen], it's just crazy.