It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now,… — John Cho Copy Share Image
When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being onstage but going… — John Cho Copy Share Image
When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority. — John Cho Copy Share Image
What was exciting to me in talking to Kogonada was I was just very convinced that he was a very real and pure artist.… — John Cho Copy Share Image
There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse. — John Cho Copy Share Image
With music I get to feel real ownership with what I do. I write it, I perform it and even if it is crap,… — John Cho Copy Share Image
I've found that one's language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I've always associated Korea… — John Cho Copy Share Image
It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real privilege to… — John Cho Copy Share Image
I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand… — John Cho Copy Share Image
Not sleeping, listening to Paul Auster on Fresh Air. His function, tonight and ever, has been to remind me that I will die. Thanks… — John Cho Copy Share Image
Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can… — John Cho Copy Share Image
For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were… — John Cho Copy Share Image
I hereby call for the execution of the person who designed the layout of rite aid stores. — John Cho Copy Share Image
Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard. — John Cho Copy Share Image
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television. — John Cho Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film -… — John Cho Copy Share Image
