Dat Phan

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…

— Dat Phan

I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed…

— Dat Phan

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

— Dat Phan

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

— Dat Phan

It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

— Dat Phan

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or…

— Dat Phan

I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to…

— Dat Phan

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

— Dat Phan

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make…

— Dat Phan

I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked…

— Dat Phan

Vietnam, we take over by doing pedicure! That's how we take over. We take over one foot at a time, damn it…

— Dat Phan

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

— Dat Phan