I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!

Our species likes being social.

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!

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

One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.

It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've experienced is that the good stuff comes from places you don't expect.

I've never even seen a Cheech and Chong movie.

I have this nightmare that one day I will have to look at every picture I've ever taken with people in an airport or in bars or restaurants, and it will make me very sad.

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

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.

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

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.

Good things will come from self-expression.

I think obviously the 'Harold and Kumar' stuff is trying to lean head first into the raunch.

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

The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.

I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase, and they didn't expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.

I campaigned for Obama, and that was such a big component of getting the vote out, was social media.

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.

I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.

I've had an unusual career in that I've never had a big break, but the rent always seemed to get paid.

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.

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.