John Cho Quotes
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'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.
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For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.
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The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that.
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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.
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I've never even seen a Cheech and Chong movie.
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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.
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I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong.
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The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.
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Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.
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I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.
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When you get something off the ground, it's fantastic, and you feel really close to that group of people.
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People expect me to be funnier.
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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.
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It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.
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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.
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I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!
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Sometimes I feel like I don't dream big enough.
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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.
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When Mindy Kaling asks, I try my best to say yes.
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I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
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I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.
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With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.
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Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.
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One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.