As I always have with stand-up or anything, you kind of draw on what you're going through in your life.

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you'll get hired.

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the burger place. I miss Shake Shack.

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z'.

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.