Ken Jeong

“I was a very efficient doctor. I would get rewarded with a lot more patients. By the end of my medical career, I had maybe 2,000 patients in my practice.”

“I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work.”

“When you're working with your friends, it doesn't feel like it's work.”

“'Community' was a very important part of my growth as an actor. I see it as my acting school, not having a lot of formal acting training.”

“I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.”

“Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.”

“You just can't take the doctor out of you.”

“I never let on I was a comedian. I never acted out. It was really important to me, like, to not be Patch Adams. I was so super serious as a doctor, I would bark orders to my nurses. I was hard-core. I wanted to make sure I did my job right. I was perfectly trained to be a physician. You know, it wasn't a fluke. I worked hard at it.”

“Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.”

“I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.”

“I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.”

“I have my own show. I get to work in Hollywood on my own project. If I can still make it back home by eight to put the kids in bed, then wow: I am having my cake and eating it, too.”

“I'll never leave 'Community,' no matter what. You're either a lifer, or you're not.”

“A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.”

“We're all conditioned to work hard, and it's not just an Asian thing: it's an Asian American thing. You maximize the little opportunity you have, and I've made a career.”

“I always just loved to laugh. I always just loved it as a kid.”

“Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.”

“I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.”

“I'm not really a helicopter dad or tiger dad per se. If anything, I try to not do that, but I get anxious while I'm trying to be relaxed about raising my kids.”

“I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.”