I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.