American - Actor | June 16, 1972 -
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
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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.
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I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!
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That's what it is: a 'Harold & Kumar' movie is a romance between two best friends.
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There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.
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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.
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The Asian-American kids I meet respond to a democracy in the vulgarity of my roles.
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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.
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I don't feel comfortable as an insider.
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I accept what people say. I don't have time to dissect it.
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Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.
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Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.
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