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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.
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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.
John Cho
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Movies may be as close to a document of our national culture as there is; they're supposed to represent what we believe ourselves to be. So when you don't see yourself at all - or see yourself erased - that hurts.
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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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I personally would love to see Harold and Kumar with children. I think that would be hilarious.
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Our species likes being social.
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Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.
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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.
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I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.
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That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly play characters who don't have that life, it feels incomplete and not totally human.
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I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.
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It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.
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It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.
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I like to flip flop, but making your days work to find a laugh is a really good way to spend a day. I appreciate it more going away and then coming back to it.
John Cho
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I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.
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I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.
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I've had an unusual career in that I've never had a big break, but the rent always seemed to get paid.
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I don't feel comfortable as an insider.
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Asians narratively in shows are insignificant. They're the cop or the waitress or whatever it is. You see them in the background.
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I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.
John Cho
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Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.
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Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.
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The more roles there are, the more actors there are.
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I campaigned for Obama, and that was such a big component of getting the vote out, was social media.
John Cho