Ken Jeong Quotes

• You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

  Ken Jeong

  Believe, Tools, Useless

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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

  Work, Thinking, People

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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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

  Guy, Film, Like You

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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

  People, Way, Faults

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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

  Issues, Talking, Medicine

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• You just can't take the doctor out of you.

  Ken Jeong

  Doctors

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• I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

  Ken Jeong

  Simple, Careers, People

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• I always just loved to laugh. I always just loved it as a kid.

  Ken Jeong

  Kids, Laughing

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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

  Blessed, Wife, Supportive

  "Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong and Director Todd Phillips Talk THE HANGOVER PART II". Press Conference, Los Angeles, collider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

  Ken Jeong

  Sitcom, Showbiz

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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

  People, Giving, Three

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, film.avclub.com. August 14, 2009.

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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

  Mean, Feelings, Moments

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.

  Ken Jeong

  Actors, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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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

  Running, Team, Grateful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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

  Night, New Orleans, Doctors

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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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

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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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

  Thinking, People, Asking

  "Ken Jeong of "The Hangover Part II" The funniest doctor in America makes a house call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 30, 2011.

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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

  Character, Trying, Realizing

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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

  Mean, People, Important

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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

  Real, Clothes, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

  Ken Jeong

  Medicine, Profession

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• I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

  Ken Jeong

  Lying, Done, Projects

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• It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.

  Ken Jeong

  Hangover, Wife, My Wife

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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

  Thinking, People, Comedic

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.

  Ken Jeong

  Wrestling, North Carolina, Grew Up

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