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" 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. "

Ken Jeong

Think

Doctor

Day

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

Ken Jeong

Myself

Blessed

" 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 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.' "

" When you're working with your friends, it doesn't feel like it's work. "

Ken Jeong

Friends

Work

" Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. "

" 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. "

Ken Jeong

Be Happy

People

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

Ken Jeong

North Carolina

North

" Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food. "

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

" You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution. "

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

Ken Jeong

Always

Just

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

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

" You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless. "

" You just can't take the doctor out of you. "

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

" 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. "

" When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume. "

" 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. "

" 'The King of Masked Singer,' as they call it in Korea, it's the most popular show in Korea, and it's my mom's favorite show. "

" There is something special and different about being a father to twin daughters. "

" 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 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 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 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 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. "

" '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. "