Steven Yeun famous quotes

03-30-2025

I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.
-- Steven Yeun

#Home #College #Psych
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

#Honesty #Real #People
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

#School #Doctors #Parent
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

#Humility #Acting #Firsts
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

#Basketball #Football #Brother
I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education.
-- Steven Yeun

#College #Years #Parent
I am a huge Pistons fan. Those were some of my best times in college, watching the Detroit Pistons.
-- Steven Yeun

#College #Detroit #Fans
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

#Parent #Four #Firsts
If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.
-- Steven Yeun

#Jobs #Chicago #Scene
I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.
-- Steven Yeun

#Christian #Emotional #Helping
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.
-- Steven Yeun

#College #Nerd #Chicago
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

#Running #Yelling #Boxing
At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.
-- Steven Yeun

#The End Of The Day #Lines #Matter
I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful.
-- Steven Yeun

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

#Stuff #Fans #Watches
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

#Keeping Secrets #People #Secret
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city.
-- Steven Yeun

#Nice #Heart #Thinking
Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.
-- Steven Yeun

#People #Hustle #Gains
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

#Basketball #People #Boxing

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