Kal Penn Quotes

#1. I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude ... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.

Utkarsh Ambudkar

#2. The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

Kal Penn

#3. I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.

Taylor Swift

#4. In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

Kal Penn

#5. I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had.

Kal Penn

#6. My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

Kal Penn

#7. The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

Kal Penn

#8. I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Kal Penn

#9. I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

Kal Penn

#10. What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

Kal Penn

#11. To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'

Kal Penn

#12. Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.

Michael Pollan

#13. You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

James Lovelock

#14. You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.

Patty Schemel

#15. Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Kathryn Minshew

#16. Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

Kal Penn

#17. To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

Helena Bonham Carter

#18. I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things.

Ryan Buell

#19. The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'

Kal Penn

#20. I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food.

Kal Penn

#21. Wherever you feel peacefulness, you might call it home

Windy Ariestanty

#22. Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

Kal Penn