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..

Vietnam, we take over by doing pedicure! That's how we take over. We take over one foot at a time, damn it - that's the plan of attack right there. W….

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

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 ….

I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try ou….

Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire….

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

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us..

I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known sinc….

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..

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 ma….