John Cho Quotes
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I never saw 'Home Alone.'
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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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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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The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.
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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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I've never even seen a Cheech and Chong movie.
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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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Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.
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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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'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.
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People expect me to be funnier.
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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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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'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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When Mindy Kaling asks, I try my best to say yes.
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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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I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.
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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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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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Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.
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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.
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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.
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I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase, and they didn't expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.