Astrid: It was never my job to make you feel like a man. I can’t make you something you’re not.

Peik Lin: Chinese sons think their moms fart Chanel No. 5.

Astrid: God forbid we lose the ancient Chinese tradition of guilting your children.

Rachel: I just love Nick so much, I don’t want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day – when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you’re playing with your grandkids while the Tan Huas are blooming, and the birds are chirping – that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.

Rachel: You have a cocktail dress in your trunk?
Peik Lin: I’m not an animal, Rachel.

Rachel: So your family is, like, rich?
Nick: We’re comfortable.
Rachel: That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.

• Director Jon M. Chu revealed that Michelle Yeoh was dissatisfied with the mock-up ring that her character, Eleanor, was going to wear. She showed him a ring from her personal collection and this eventually became the emerald and diamond ring Eleanor wears in the movie.
• Netflix wanted to produce the movie and its sequels and offered a much bigger budget. However, author Kevin Kwan opted for a more modest Warner Bros. budget to get a theatrical release.
• In 2018, Crazy Rich Asians grossed more than $200 million worldwide at the box office and became one of the most successful romantic comedies of the decade.
• Awkwafina was supposed to wear several different wigs throughout the movie; however, after she put on the blonde wig, it was decided to scrap the other wigs and just keep the one. The joke about this was kept in the scene where actor Ken Jeong starts calling her “Asian Ellen” (aka Ellen DeGeneres).
• Jon M. Chu personally wrote to the members of Coldplay for permission to use a cover of ‘Yellow.’ Aside from Yellow’s obvious connotation as an epithet, the band was also reluctant to be associated with the film because of the accusations of cultural appropriation surrounding their song ‘Princess of China.’ However, Chu won them over after explaining his personal fondness of the song and his desire to “reclaim” the word from its usage as a racial slur.
• Kevin Kwan makes a brief cameo during the “Who is Rachel Chu?” montage at the beginning of the film.
• Crazy Rich Asians was Henry Golding’s first film. He initially declined the offer to audition, believing a “legitimate actor” should play Nick. It wasn’t until director Jon M. Chu contacted him personally that he changed his mind.
• Due to the timing of the audition, Henry Golding had to cut his honeymoon short.
• Michelle Yeoh loaned the film several pieces of jewelry from her own personal collection.
• The mahjong scene toward the end of the film is a nod to The Joy Luck Club, and is not featured in the book.