The only casual item I own is a Levi's jacket.

Lyrics became important for a while in the late Seventies. Patti Smith was a poet and a rock star, as much one as the other, the distinctions were a bit blurred and then you get swept up in it. Punk poet, it's a good enough term.

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

I love being on my bike, but I don't consider that a sport: it's too pleasant.

My wife and I were worried, when we had our firstborn, about how he was going to think of himself in a mostly white neighborhood. Particularly Asian men, I feel, we suffer more than Asian women, because we're told we're not worth anything in general.

When Mindy Kaling asks, I try my best to say yes.

I'd like to be in a Western.

I want to walk the bases - I want to do all the actor-y stuff.

There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

Whenever I meet a Korean, I ask about their immigration history.

I wanted to explore Korean-American characters. And 'Columbus' did address that. The father-son dynamic felt very real to me.

I personally would love to see Harold and Kumar with children. I think that would be hilarious.

People expect me to be funnier.

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

The more roles there are, the more actors there are.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.

The thing about kissing men - how do people stand it? The stubble is maddening.

I grew up watching the Lakers.

To be able to communicate with people on the other side of the globe is interesting, in an instant.

Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.

I like that guy Matthew Perry a lot.

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film - that we're all doing this person's reel.