John Cho Quotes
I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
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I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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I intend to apply the perspective of astrobiology, which is a deep-time way of looking at life on Earth, towards the question of the Anthropocene. What does the human phenomenon on Earth look like viewed from an interplanetary perspective?
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Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
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When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.
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When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.
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I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.
