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I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.

When I first started acting in college, at Cal, the thing that I loved about acting was not being onstage but going into rehearsals. The thing, as I look back on it now, that I was most attracted to, was that I felt like I'd found my family. It was just a bunch of loonies.

John Cho

People expect me to be funnier.

John Cho

Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.

John Cho

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

John Cho

You're trying to grow up, and you don't want to be like your parents, and that gets mixed up with being Korean... They brought their values from Korea, and I accepted them because I didn't know anything more. But as I grow older, I feel more Korean every year; it's very strange.

John Cho

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

John Cho

I would love to do Shakespeare, either onstage or on film.

John Cho

The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.

John Cho

When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and break things down.

John Cho

I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.

John Cho

There is a real Harold Lee.

John Cho

I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.

John Cho

There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.

John Cho

The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that.

John Cho

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film - that we're all doing this person's reel.

John Cho

The thing about kissing men - how do people stand it? The stubble is maddening.

John Cho

I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and an essay, and I'd never worked in concert with an orchestra.

John Cho

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

John Cho

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

John Cho

When I started acting... the community was largely Chinese-American or Japanese-American, so even then I felt like a minority in the minority.

John Cho

I've found that one's language abilities, especially for Korean kids like me, get frozen at the age you immigrated. So I've always associated Korea with being a child and being infantilized through my inability to speak.

John Cho

I like that guy Matthew Perry a lot.

John Cho

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

John Cho

I've found it to be true that sometimes a stranger can give you advice that stays with you, utter truths the closest people in your life have trouble saying.

John Cho

'Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.

John Cho

I like to flip flop, but making your days work to find a laugh is a really good way to spend a day. I appreciate it more going away and then coming back to it.

John Cho

I never saw 'Home Alone.'

John Cho

Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.

John Cho

The biggest boss has the clearest desk.

John Cho

There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

John Cho

Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.

John Cho

I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.

John Cho

I grew up watching the Lakers.

John Cho

The message of 'Star Trek,' if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we're capable of.

John Cho

I personally would love to see Harold and Kumar with children. I think that would be hilarious.

John Cho

I get called Harold the most. I think maybe 'Harold & Kumar' fans don't know my name, and 'Star Trek' fans do know my name... Harold fans are vocal!

John Cho