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John Cho

John Cho

American Actor

Born: Jun 16, 1972

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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

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'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

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The scariest thing is to go into a new situation for myself, and yet I have a job where I do that every few months, meet a hundred new people, and then have to perform in a very highly pressurized environment. John Cho

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with 'Little House' because they were wanderers, and there was something about being an immigrant. John Cho

Movies may be as close to a document of our national culture as there is; they're supposed to represent what we believe ourselves to be. So when you don't see yourself at all - or see yourself erased - that hurts. John Cho

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I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it. John Cho

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Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant. 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

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As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game. John Cho

You Game Long Think Out About Rent Getting Paid

I like that guy Matthew Perry a lot. John Cho

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I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy. John Cho

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There is a real Harold Lee. John Cho

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I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong. John Cho

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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

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I don't feel comfortable as an insider. John Cho

Insider Feel Comfortable

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise. John Cho

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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. John Cho

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I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything. John Cho

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To be able to communicate with people on the other side of the globe is interesting, in an instant. John Cho

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