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I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.
John Cho -
I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn't care. It didn't mean anything to me.
John Cho
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I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.
John Cho -
When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic, and you feel really close to that group of people.
John Cho -
When Mindy Kaling asks, I try my best to say yes.
John Cho -
When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being onstage but going into rehearsals. The thing, as I look back on it now, that I was most attracted to, was that I felt like I'd found my family. It was just a bunch of loonies.
John Cho -
I never saw 'Home Alone.'
John Cho -
When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and break things down.
John Cho
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The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.
John Cho -
I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!
John Cho -
Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.
John Cho -
'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.
John Cho -
I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.
John Cho -
I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.
John Cho
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I've found it to be true that sometimes a stranger can give you advice that stays with you, utter truths the closest people in your life have trouble saying.
John Cho -
Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.
John Cho -
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.
John Cho -
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
John Cho -
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
John Cho -
Sometimes I feel like I don't dream big enough.
John Cho
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People expect me to be funnier.
John Cho -
The goal of Asians in the arts is plurality of roles. I've always been hindered by me over-thinking what is a stereotype and what isn't.
John Cho -
The scariest thing is to go into a new situation for myself, and yet I have a job where I do that every few months, meet a hundred new people, and then have to perform in a very highly pressurized environment.
John Cho -
The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.
John Cho