Lana Condor

“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.”

“Birkenstocks are highly underrated. They are so comfortable.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.”

“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.”

“Dancing is so brutally taxing on your body.”

“Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!”

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

“I love 'The Devil Wears Prada.'”

“I loved working with Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart.”

“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.”

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

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

“This is going to sound so cliche, but I believe this through and through: Don't be afraid to be yourself.”

“High school's weird, man.”

“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.”

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