Quotes by Ken Jeong - Page 1

You just can't take the doctor out of you.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Doctor
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It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Hangover
My Wife
Wife
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It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.'
Ken Jeong / Actor
Hangover
Insisted
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Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Showbiz
Sitcom
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I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Carolina
Grew Up
North Carolina
Wrestling
North
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I always just loved to laugh. I always just loved it as a kid.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Kids
Laughing
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Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Escape
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Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Actors
Projects
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Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Models
Role Models
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I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Done
Lying
Projects
Project
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A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Asian
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I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Medicine
Profession
Sued
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I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Approach
Careers
People
Simple
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The best thing I can recommend is to listen to your child. I really mean that.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Recommend
Your Child
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There is something special and different about being a father to twin daughters.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Something Special
Daughters
Twin
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I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Asian
Independent Film
Filmmakers
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I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Community College
Duke
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I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Good Parent
Love Good Your
Individualize
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I'm the guy that no one knows, but everyone's like, "You're that guy in that film thing."
Ken Jeong / Actor
Film
Guy
Like You
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You can't get through medical school if you don't have a strong will and a strong constitution.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Medical
Constitution
Medical School
School
Strong
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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 / Actor
Blessed
Secure
Supportive
Wife
Myself Wife Me
Myself Me Wife
Embarrass
Letting
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You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Believe
Believe In Yourself
Tools
Useless
Yourself
Genuinely
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'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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Mom
Show
Call
Favorite
Favorite Show
Singer
Popular
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I don't have a sence of style in real life. I'm more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don't wear jewelry, I don't wear any of this.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Clothes
Guy
Real
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Judged
Effect
End Of The Day
Just Be
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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.'
Ken Jeong / Actor
Morning Myself Mirror
Morning Myself Look
Crying
Mirror
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'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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Acting
Formal
Growth
Training
Acting School
Important Part
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I have a bunch of headshots that I like to throw at people - with some backups. I give them like three copies just so they don't forget me.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Giving
People
Three
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Asking
Honored
People
Sun
Thinking
Asked
Me People Questions
Question
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I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Comedic
People
Thinking
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Medical
Efficient
Patients
Rewarded
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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 / Actor
Casts
Diverse
Emphasize
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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 / Actor
Anxious
Relaxed
Helicopter
Per
Tiger
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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 / Actor
Comfortable
Faults
Okay
People
Way
Me People Way
Me People Sometimes
Sure
Be Happy
Definitely
Pleaser
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I'm really trying not to feel I'm getting spoiled, because the way I look at it, since I'm not a main character of any of the movies, I realize just how fortunate I am.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Character
Realizing
Trying
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We're all conditioned to work hard, and it's not just an Asian thing: it's an Asian American thing. You maximize the little opportunity you have, and I've made a career.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Asian
Conditioned
Maximize
Work Hard
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Burned
Life Work Great
Dr
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Bed
Cake
Eating
Eight
Hollywood
My Own
Work Home I Am
Project
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Laughing
Sensibility
Thinking
Trying
Page
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I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliché when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Grounded
Important
Mean
People
Movies People Important
Nowadays
People Say
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Doctors
Steam
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Cultivating
Doctors
Finished
New Orleans
Night
Residency
Doctor
Work Night Day
Improv
Orleans
Resume
Standup
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Work
Commit
Granted
People
Thinking
Myself Always I Am
Talented
Funnier
Substitute
Working Hard
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I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Critics
Embrace
Fluid
Math
Sophisticated
Organic
Theorem
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It was such an amazing feeling to be on that movie set. And for the first scene I ever did in any movie, I improvised for about 10 minutes, and then there's applause by the crew, you know what I mean? I haven't had that before or since. It was just such an amazing moment.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Feelings
Mean
Moments
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Entertainment
Handle
Issues
Life And Death
Matured
Medicine
Serious
Talking
Life Death Me
Dealing
Obviously
Physician
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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 / Actor
Close Friends
Doctor Who
Doors
Hangover
Odd
Surreal
Wide
Doctor
Burst
Detour
Opened
The Doors
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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.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Bark
Comedian
Acted
Fluke
Nurses
Orders
Patch
Perfectly
Physician
Trained
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I just feel very grateful to be a part of that, to be a part of a winning team... I'm trying hard not to be used to it, but I am kind of. It is something where I've run out of people that I want to work with because I've worked with everybody I ever wanted to. I really have. I can't think of anyone I'd want to work with right now because I'd just want to work with the same people again.
Ken Jeong / Actor
Running
Grateful
Team
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