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

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.

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

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

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.