John Cho Quotes
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
Quotes to Explore
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Actors don't have real value.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
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I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
