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Jimmy O. Yang Quotes - Page 1
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I'm just a quirky, funny dude.
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Quirky
Dude
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I love everyone on 'Silicon Valley.'
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Love Everyone
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Valley
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Normal people don't become stand-up comedians.
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Comedians
Normal People
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It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.
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Fine Line
Hack
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I just want to keep working and have a roof over my head.
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Roof
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Maybe my job on this planet is to make the Asian accent sexy.
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Accent
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When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.
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Calling
Jackie
Jackie Chan
Playground
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I tried my hardest to be the opposite of a stereotypical Asian student.
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Opposite
Student
Stereotypical
Tried
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When I became an American citizen, nothing's changed because I'm still Asian.
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American Citizen
Citizen
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I'm generally pretty excited about new gadgets, new tech, A.I., stuff like that.
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Gadgets
Tech
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My dad played my dad in 'Patriots Day' and that's why he thinks that's a good movie.
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Movie
Good Movie
Played
Patriots
Thinks
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It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.
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Accents
Ashamed
Brothers And Sisters
Brothers
Sisters
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I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.
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Boxing
Know Why Things
Classes
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I was competitive ping-pong player. I played in youth tournaments, under the age of 13.
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Tournaments
Youth
Played
Competitive
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I was actually fairly athletic and coordinated, but I never played any organized sports.
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Organized
Fairly
Coordinated
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Nate Dogg is my favorite artist. I cried more when he passed than when Michael Jackson did.
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Cried
Jackson
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I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.
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Goods
Selling
Summers
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Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?
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Accent
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I went back to Hong Kong for the first time in 17 years and I was culture shocked in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong
Shocked
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It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.
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Perception
Accent
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My mom worked as a manager at a high-end fashion place, so she was always a pretty stylish woman.
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Stylish
High-End
Manager
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Nico Santos I've known from Bay Area stand-up, and he lives right by me so we hang out all the time.
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Bay Area
Time Me Right
Bay
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Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.
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Require
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I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.
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Accent
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To get noticed you need to work a lot and have a bit of luck. And I'm here to say that it's possible.
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Luck
Noticed
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I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my hobbies.
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Beats
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Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.
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Better People Speak
Accent
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With a lot of pop music, they just have one song and a good beat, but there's not necessarily that much talent.
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Pop Music
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I obeyed my parents' rules inside our Chinese household while I pursued my dreams in the American world outside.
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Chinese
Household
Pursued
Inside
Rules
Obeyed
Outside
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My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.
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Success
Failure
Chinese
Ten
Thousand
Success Man Me
Success Failure Man
Sure
Name
Set
Means
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I'm a big Clippers fan. I have season tickets to the Clippers. That's the only team I really root for in any sport.
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Tickets
Root
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It's so great when there's a catchy song that's fun and easy to listen to, but there's also a real artist behind it.
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Catchy
Real Artist
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If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.
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Daunting
Flowing
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I went to school for economics, and especially in Asian culture it's not really a viable job for my family to be an artist.
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Viable
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One of my first big paychecks, I used it to buy a Rolex. I bought a used 1968 vintage Rolex. I was too cheap to buy a new one.
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Vintage
Cheap
New One
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I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.
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Experience New Way
Assimilating
Immigrant
Outsider
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But I try to play everything very authentically, even if it is an accented immigrant, Jian Yang, that I play on 'Silicon Valley.'
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Silicon
Silicon Valley
Yang
Immigrant
Valley
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But my comedy hero was Stephen Chow. His deadpan comedy, all the stuff he wrote like 'From Beijing with Love,' it's incredibly funny.
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Beijing
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Usually when you're Asian and you're on set, you're the only Asian there. Either you're the token Asian or you're the Asian sidekick.
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Sidekick
Token
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When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time - I feel like that's when I 'Americaned.'
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Pursue
Quit
Standup
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When 'Chappelle's Show' came out, if you didn't watch it on Wednesday night, you had nothing to talk about in high school the next day.
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Wednesday
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I don't read in Chinese very well. Google Translate helps with that. It's cool that I can upload a photo and translate the text from it.
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Google
Translate
Photo
Text
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Whatever ethnicity you are, yes, absolutely you have to be proud of who you are man. I am really really proud to be Asian, I got to say.
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Ethnicity
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When I came to America, it was Dave Chappelle and a lot of comedians on ComicView. That was my first exposure to stand up comedy, actually.
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Dave
Exposure
Comedians
Stand Up
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I was first introduced to Kiesza when I saw her perform 'Hideaway' on Jimmy Kimmel's show. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.
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Jimmy
Introduced
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I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.
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Life Experience Character
Whoever
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When I was graduating college with an economics degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was kind of scared. So I was just trying everything.
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No Idea
Scared
Degree
Graduating
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The great thing about the comedy world is that everybody is somewhat of an outsider. That's the community where outsiders feel like they're insiders.
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Outsiders
Great Community World
Somewhat
Great Thing
Outsider
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As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don't even know what stand-up is.
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Older Generation
Apt
Asians
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Silicon Valley,' I mean, the comedy is amazing, and it's one of the best-written shows with some of the best talent. I'm really happy to be a part of it.
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Silicon
Silicon Valley
Talent
Valley
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