Chon Quotes & Sayings

He feels
ennui
depression
adrift in his life. Purposeless, perhaps because
- dig a well in the Sudan and thejanjaweed come in and shoot the people anyway
- buy mosquito nets and the boys
you save grow up to
- rape women
- set up cottage industries in Myanmar and the army
- steals them and uses the women as slaves and
Ben is starting to be afraid that he is starting to share Chon's opinion of the human species
that people are basically
shit. — Don Winslow

I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying! — Justin Chon

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly. — Justin Chon

The boys quiet until Ben looks across the table at Chon, holds his thumb and index finger a millimeter apart, and says, "We're that close to being gay."
They laugh for half an hour.
Collective dicks — Don Winslow

I'm gonna be pretty honest; there wasn't a lot of improv allowed on 'Eclipse.' — Justin Chon

Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible for every little thing. — Justin Chon

I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta were in it. I was one of the leads, and I thought this was it. It got shelved for two years, and then it was in theaters maybe a week. After that, I adopted a philosophy of, 'Hope for the best, expect the worst.' — Justin Chon

My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive. — Justin Chon

I didn't become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it. — Justin Chon

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down. — Justin Chon

To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists. — Justin Chon

Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's funny - when I started acting, I didn't know I was going to be talking about Asian-American issues so much. You know what, though? It just comes with the territory, being ethnic. — Justin Chon

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy. — Justin Chon

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man. — Justin Chon

I always refer to the Lutherans first. — Sierra Simone

Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me. — Karen Joy Fowler

'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors. — Justin Chon

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. — Sheryl Sandberg

I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of my life, so I gave acting a try. I would have been happy doing theater and making nothing. — Justin Chon

Together, Ben and Chon make up a collective pacifist. Ben is the paci Chon is the fist. — Don Winslow

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m. — Tom Hodgkinson

When you love something, you're gonna be the best at it. — Justin Chon

When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear. — Justin Chon

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do. — Justin Chon

I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be. — Justin Chon

Just be yourself. As an actor, you pretend all day - that's what the job calls for. So, when it comes to my personal life, a woman who keeps it real is a breath of fresh air. — Justin Chon

I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you're serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have. — Justin Chon

In some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony. — Vladimir Putin

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings. — Sonia Sanchez

In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of every asset you have. Don't take anything for granted. — Justin Chon

I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad
Charley Davidson. — Darynda Jones

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities. — Justin Chon

I love Irvine. That's my 'hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It's in my comfort zone. — Justin Chon

The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it. — Mary Ritter Beard

Right knowledge, of itself, EVIDENTLY does not bring about moral transformation in human beings - even supposing that right knowledge is something we are predisposed to desire in the first place. It is possible to be highly educated and at the same time morally depraved. There is, in fact, a certain kind of moral depravity that only the highly educated can attain, because it requires sophisticated skills of rationalization and self-deception. — Iain W. Provan