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All Quotes by author - Ken Jeong

" A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema. "

" Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics. "

" Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor. "

" 'Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a lot of formal acting training. "

" During the day, I was a doctor. At night, you know, I was a comic. And it was really just to let off some steam. It just became my golf, you know, in many ways. Most doctors have golf as a hobby. Mine was doing comedy. "

" I always just loved to laugh. I always just loved it as a kid. "

" I always say 'Knocked Up' opened the doors, and 'Hangover' just burst it wide open. To this day, it's still surreal. And my wife's a doctor. All our friends are doctors - our close friends. And it's just that I have an odd job now. I think I'm like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job. "

" I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work. "

" If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art. "

" I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling. "

" I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love. "

" I have my own show. I get to work in Hollywood on my own project. If I can still make it back home by eight to put the kids in bed, then wow: I am having my cake and eating it, too. "

" I'll never leave 'Community,' no matter what. You're either a lifer, or you're not. "

" I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay. "

" I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great. "

" I'm not really a helicopter dad or tiger dad per se. If anything, I try to not do that, but I get anxious while I'm trying to be relaxed about raising my kids. "

" I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself. "

" I never let on I was a comedian. I never acted out. It was really important to me, like, to not be Patch Adams. I was so super serious as a doctor, I would bark orders to my nurses. I was hard-core. I wanted to make sure I did my job right. I was perfectly trained to be a physician. You know, it wasn't a fluke. I worked hard at it. "

" I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means. "

" I think, at the end of the day, you should just be judged by your work, not on what effect it might have on the world or your community. "

" I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace. "

" I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page. "

" I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions. "

" I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child. "

" It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.' "

" I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film. "

" I wake up in the morning crying, and I'll tell you why. It's because I look at myself in the mirror, and then I say, 'It'll get better.' "

" I was a very efficient doctor. I would get rewarded with a lot more patients. By the end of my medical career, I had maybe 2,000 patients in my practice. "

" I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession. "

" I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever. "

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