Steven Yeun quotes

Steven Yeun is a South Korean-American actor, widely recognized for his roles in both television and film. His breakthrough came with the popular series "The Walking Dead," and he later earned critical acclaim for his performance in "Minari." He continues to break barriers for Asian actors in Hollywood and receive international recognition. Here are 18 of his quotes:

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

Steven Yeun

I'm not much of a horror fan. When it comes to ghost stuff and demon stuff, I can't watch that.

Steven Yeun

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

Steven Yeun

I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful.

Steven Yeun

I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.

Steven Yeun

I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.

Steven Yeun

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

Steven Yeun

I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.

Steven Yeun

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

Steven Yeun

What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv.

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If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

Steven Yeun

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.

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Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

Steven Yeun

Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I graduated with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Really, the plan was for me to go to med school.

Steven Yeun

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

Steven Yeun

Let's not mess with your Americana that's kind of embedded into your body. The food that you've eaten, the choices that you've made, the way that you think - don't alter those things. Instead, just - let's work on the language so that you can be unequivocally Korean. But let's leave these mysterious Western encodings in your body alone. And I think that created its inherent kind of, like, dissonance with that character where you don't know who or what and where he's from.

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