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When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Afraid Away Bodies Bring Call Comment Crazy Extend Fascinated Illness Individuals Mental Mental Illness Minds Most Offer Our Outright People Shorts Shy Sick Society Solutions Soup Sympathy Tend Up Us View Way You

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One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

~Anna Akana

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My YouTube channel is kind of a library of all my issues I've lived with. To process it emotionally, it's been good and bad.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Bad Been Channel Emotionally Good Good And Bad Issues Kind Library Lived Process Youtube

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I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'

~Anna Akana

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I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Always Asian Comedy Daydream Growing Growing Up Just Media Parents Seeing Up Wanted Yourself

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I do believe I was put here to tell stories and be creative in that way. It's given my life so much purpose and meaning, and it's ultimately what I live for.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Believe Creative Given Here Life Live Meaning Much My Life Purpose Put Stories Tell Ultimately Way

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'Loose Ends' was an all-female crew and one of the greatest on-set experiences I've ever had. We were ahead of schedule every day, and there was a laid-back, calm, supportive vibe that was entirely new to all of us.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Calm Crew Day Ends Entirely Ever Every Every Day Experiences Greatest Had Loose New Schedule Supportive Us Vibe Were Ahead

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Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Audition Being Book Complete Control Creative Digital Filmmaker Given Make Me Platform Wait Want I Can

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The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Incredible Makeup Power You

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I'm making 20 times more with Vessel for doing the same amount of work, if not less, than with YouTube.

~Anna Akana

Topics: Amount Doing Less Making More Same Than Times Vessel Work Youtube

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: Unknown

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