I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness.… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math. — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us. — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you. — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies. — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
Vietnam, we take over by doing pedicure! That's how we take over. We take over one foot at a time, damn it - that's… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda. — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
