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

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 stay put.

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

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

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

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 is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

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

He kept his eyes on mine, his gaze unblinking, and I stared right back into the blue. He moved almost imperceptibly and in the space between a heartbeat his lips touched mine.

Concerning mistakes, follow three simple rules. Firstly, correct a mistake that you made whenever it is possible. Secondly, don't repeat the same mistakes. Thirdly, learn from past mistakes.

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

The new European Soviet.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.