John Cho Quotes

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

I am not a myth.

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

My life is real.

I'm a real person. You can ask anybody who knows me.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

To be rather than to seem.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

We are what we seem to be.

People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.

We pass for what we are.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.