“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It’s sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple.”

The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.

I’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.

If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.

You know, a man’s life is the most precious thing in the world, isn’t it? So isn’t it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.

I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn’t need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don’t understand.

When you walk out, the money walks in

The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.

The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.

When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It’s sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple.

If you’re starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there’s nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van Gogh as a sign that people still read their history books and care about art.

I get up in the morning and I put on makeup and then I say somebody else’s words in someone else’s clothes, and then I go home and watch TV, have a glass of whisky and go to bed.

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food… they’ve never even tasted it!

When you’re on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can’t just stare at them.

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.