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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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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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For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.
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'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.
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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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Just because it's in a movie doesn't mean it's real.
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I never saw 'Home Alone.'
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I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.
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I try to take roles that don't fall within the parameters of any Asian stereotype.
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I grew up watching the Lakers.
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The thing about kissing men - how do people stand it? The stubble is maddening.
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The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.
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I've never even seen a Cheech and Chong movie.
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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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Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.
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I've played roles that aren't expected of an Asian.
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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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The more roles there are, the more actors there are.
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When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.
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I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.
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People expect me to be funnier.
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You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought their values from Korea, and I accepted them because I didn't know anything more. But as I grow older, I feel more Korean every year; it's very strange.
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Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.
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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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I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.
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For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.
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I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.
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Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.
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I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.
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There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.
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