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" 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. "

Ken Jeong

Trying

Tiger

Helicopter

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Blessed

" There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles. "

" 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. "

" The best thing I can recommend is to listen to your child. I really mean that. "

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

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

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

Ken Jeong

You

Artists

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

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

" That's what I loved about 'Community' - we had one of the most diverse casts on TV, but we didn't emphasize culture. And yet, we also didn't run away from it. "

Ken Jeong

Away

Community

" 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. "

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Be Happy

People

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Think

Just

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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Always

Just

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

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Friends

Work

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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 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. "