John Cho

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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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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I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra.

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Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... because it's all so absurd - I'm one generation removed from starvation.

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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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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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What was exciting to me in talking to Kogonada was I was just very convinced that he was a very real and pure artist. He was so uninterested in the commercial game.

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The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

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I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

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Quotes by John Cho