John Cho Quotes

It's been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

It's hard when you are trying to ingratiate yourself in a completely foreign world. It takes a long time.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

As a young boy in a new country, you had to make new friends, and that was really difficult.

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

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.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

Being an immigrant gives you so much courage.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

It's hard enough being American and trying to make it in an American world, but being Australian, you're from a whole different country and have a whole different way of doing things.

Everything has changed since I came to China.

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

I'm excited to share my experience as an immigrant assimilating to a new country and an outsider stumbling my way into Hollywood.

If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.