Quotes & Jokes by Dat Phan / page 2

25 quotes

Telling a comedian "Make me laugh" on their time off, is like telling a professional dancer: "Strip for me, you cheap little whore".

Us Asians look like we’re twenty until we’re fifty. Once we’re fifty, we look like Yoda.

It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

You can get to the next level if you're willing to give up everything and give everything you have in your heart to make it.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

I love doing comedy, you guys. I knew comedy was for me when I was the only Asian in high school that failed math. But you know, when I failed, eight other students around me failed, too.