Ken Jeong Quotes
That's what I loved about 'Community' - we had one of the most diverse casts on TV, but we didn't emphasize culture. And yet, we also didn't run away from it.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U.S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.
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When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.
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That's what I loved about 'Community' - we had one of the most diverse casts on TV, but we didn't emphasize culture. And yet, we also didn't run away from it.
