John Cho quote: "I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?"

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being on...
JOHN CHO

I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual,...
JOHN CHO

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

I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It'...
JOHN CHO

I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Ho...
JOHN CHO

Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I w...
JOHN CHO

It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've exp...
JOHN CHO

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We'...
JOHN CHO

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about com...
JOHN CHO

Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... beca...
JOHN CHO

With 'The Exorcist,' a lot of things went into it. I hadn't seen the show until they ask...
JOHN CHO

Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real peop...
JOHN CHO

The thing about kissing men - how do people stand it? The stubble is maddening.
JOHN CHO

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look bac...
JOHN CHO

The goal of Asians in the arts is plurality of roles. I've always been hindered by me over-think...
JOHN CHO

I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. Yo...
JOHN CHO

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

And especially, especially, don't f*ck with vegans. Do not look vegans in the eye. If you get into a...
MARGARET CHO

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
MARGARET CHO

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the unio...
MARGARET CHO

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
MARGARET CHO

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life fo...
MARGARET CHO

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime yo...
MARGARET CHO

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right directio...
MARGARET CHO

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
MARGARET CHO

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
MARGARET CHO

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with...
MARGARET CHO

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when the...
MARGARET CHO

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the...
MARGARET CHO

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
MARGARET CHO

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
MARGARET CHO

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.
MARGARET CHO

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the...
MARGARET CHO

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way...
MARGARET CHO

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a re...
MARGARET CHO

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire li...
MARGARET CHO

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
MARGARET CHO

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look...
MARGARET CHO

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
MARGARET CHO

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordina...
MARGARET CHO

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharp...
MARGARET CHO

Its like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone elses story.
MARGARET CHO

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
MARGARET CHO

Im not going to die because I failed as someone else. Im going to succeed as myself.
MARGARET CHO

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I a...
MARGARET CHO

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in Americ...
MARGARET CHO

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't ...
MARGARET CHO

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There&#...
MARGARET CHO

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like yo...
MARGARET CHO

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand...
MARGARET CHO

This show is a lot funnier and more outrageous. There are lots more jokes.
MARGARET CHO

I love the word "faggot," because it describes my kind of guy. You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are...
MARGARET CHO

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my...
MARGARET CHO

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate
MARGARET CHO

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
MARGARET CHO

I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local ne...
MARGARET CHO

[Fun and games for sure, but with an underlying middle finger toward growing intolerance in mainstre...
MARGARET CHO

I don't really have an agenda. I don't care about being on a sitcom or making an impression [to the ...
MARGARET CHO

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -
MARGARET CHO

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing t...
MARGARET CHO

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex—ever. Now that the milk is free, w...
MARGARET CHO

I Have Chosen To Stay and Fight
MARGARET CHO

[She has a somewhat clandestine method of changing her own attitudes.] I'm a belly dancer! It's my o...
MARGARET CHO

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe befo...
MARGARET CHO

If there is a linking code, there has to be some kind of written confirmation or affidavit that the ...
MILDRED CHO

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country,...
MARGARET CHO

How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still no...
ZEN CHO

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
MARGARET CHO

I think reality television is such a special talent.
MARGARET CHO

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but t...
MARGARET CHO

All of my teammates are unique. We're all a family.
IRENE CHO

I try not to think about my ranking because it could change so quickly - it's not a big deal. It's a...
IRENE CHO

I find time to sleep. I just find time to sleep at weird times.
IRENE CHO

But one may like someone enough to kiss them without liking them enough to confide in them. The two ...
ZEN CHO

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.
MARGARET CHO

I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.
ZEN CHO

Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out...
ZEN CHO

Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the s...
ZEN CHO

Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.
ZEN CHO

He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.
ZEN CHO

But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.
ZEN CHO

I think from the growth we've experienced in the last few years it wouldn't be that long ... Next ye...
JUNO CHO

Seventy million with a solid product portfolio and with the right average selling price is our goal.
JUNO CHO

The $30 to $40 phone probably does not give us enough margins.
JUNO CHO

More surprising was that we had not even set up a proper incubation facility yet. When the eggs came...
NYO CHO TONG

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

John Cho

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