A biography for Jimmy O. Yanghasn’t been written yet.
“I remember the first couple of TV things I did, I was really nervous.”
“Mother always tries to buy things for a reasonable price. I was never allowed to buy things at full price. Probably, it's rooted in the Chinese mentality. We are very thrifty.”
“I'm a big Clippers fan. I have season tickets to the Clippers. That's the only team I really root for in any sport.”
“I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.”
“I was first introduced to Kiesza when I saw her perform 'Hideaway' on Jimmy Kimmel's show. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.”
“When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time - I feel like that's when I 'Americaned.'”
“I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.”
“Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.”
“I just want to keep working and have a roof over my head.”
“I guess I've lived my whole life as an outsider.”
“I spoke English when I moved to the U.S.A. but I had an accent. To get rid of it, I watched a lot of TV-shows and tried to repeat after the tv-hosts. I liked shows about hip-hop.”
“When I came to America, it was Dave Chappelle and a lot of comedians on ComicView. That was my first exposure to stand up comedy, actually.”
“I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.”
“But my comedy hero was Stephen Chow. His deadpan comedy, all the stuff he wrote like 'From Beijing with Love,' it's incredibly funny.”
“When I was graduating college with an economics degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was kind of scared. So I was just trying everything.”
“My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians.''”
“If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.”
“With a lot of pop music, they just have one song and a good beat, but there's not necessarily that much talent.”
“A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.”
“I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my hobbies.”