Ken Jeong Quotes
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I was a very efficient doctor. I would get rewarded with a lot more patients. By the end of my medical career, I had maybe 2,000 patients in my practice.
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I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.
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I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.
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I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.
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If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.
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I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.
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I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.
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Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.
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You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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I wake up in the morning crying, and I'll tell you why. It's because I look at myself in the mirror, and then I say, 'It'll get better.'
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I'm not really a helicopter dad or tiger dad per se. If anything, I try to not do that, but I get anxious while I'm trying to be relaxed about raising my kids.
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Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.
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'The King of Masked Singer,' as they call it in Korea, it's the most popular show in Korea, and it's my mom's favorite show.
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Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.
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When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.
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I always say 'Knocked Up' opened the doors, and 'Hangover' just burst it wide open. To this day, it's still surreal. And my wife's a doctor. All our friends are doctors - our close friends. And it's just that I have an odd job now. I think I'm like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.
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A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.
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I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.
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There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.