John Cho Quotes

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

Hollywood has always been good to me. I've never blamed Hollywood for my problems.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

The man who looks at an animal and sees beauty is a man who has eaten well.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

Growing up in a trailer, you think everything you get is good. I always thought it was a gift from God, because some people are out here struggling and on the street. We had warmth. We had clothes. We had a roof over our head.

I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.

It's a good thing to get a break into the glamour industry.

Coming from prison, you're more appreciative. Somebody gives you a bottle of water, you're like, "Thank you." Because that water means something. It might not be too good. It might not even be drinkable, but you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.