Actor Quote by John Cho Download Open image “Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.” — John Cho ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Actor American Define Goals Mission Part Theatre
A lot of people have had good discussions about what it means to be American, and we need to broaden our definition. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor. — Anthony LaPaglia Copy Share Image
My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation,… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what… — Will Davis Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes,… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When you are in America, at least for me, as an immigrant, I try to be as Americanized as I could. I just want… — Jimmy O. Yang 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
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first… — Ana de Armas Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
