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

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.

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

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.

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.

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

Ah! That glance of yours did some magic on me, you were not aware of. For once I died and was reborn. To put it simple you did (CRL+ALT+DELETE) to my mind!

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Makeup can help you capture a moment.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Things do not exist until they begin to appear.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.