KEN JEONG

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

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.

It was my wife that insisted I do 'The Hangover.'

There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

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

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

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.

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.

I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.

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

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

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

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

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.

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

I think, at the end of the day, you should just be judged by your work, not on what effect it might have on the world or your community.

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 think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that comedy is fluid, that it evolves, and these organic evolutions are what you have to embrace.

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