Words matter. These are the best Anh Do Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love the company of my family and I like being on stage performing because I’m interested in people.
My family sits around and tells all these amazing stories of pirates and the wa. Then one day I’m having a beer after shooting an episode of ‘Thank God You’re Here,’ and started telling Dave Hughes some stories, and he said, ‘You’ve gotta turn this into a book.’
I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like ‘hey there buddy’ and ‘oh, look what I did to your nose!’
I cranked out a book. I didn’t expect it to do much, but it’s sold 80,000 copies.
Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.
My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.
I started mixing my real life stories into my stand-up, and on stage it’s much more powerful.
On the world stage, Australians are very good short filmmakers.
If I inherited a billion dollars and didn’t have to work ever again, what would I do to fill my day? I’d paint, I’d write jokes and stories, and I’d hang out and chat to very interesting people.
I love being on stage and connecting with 2000 people, but you don’t really see me that often at the Logies and all that red carpet stuff. I’d rather just have dinner with my wife and kids.
I’m an asthmatic so if you want to ask someone about asthma, ask a doctor. I’m asthmatic but I’m not an expert on it.
I have never feared failure.
One of the greatest joys of being an artist is that you start to see beauty where you didn’t before, and once you start to see the world like that it stays with you.
When I found out I’d won Book of the Year, the first person I called was my mum, who was so happy she cried on the phone. I did a bit too to be honest.
My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.
My favourite emails are along the lines of, ‘My 14-year-old doesn’t read much, but I gave him your book and he finished it in two days.’ This has been the most rewarding experience.
When I paint at home with friends, I have a chat and it’s just a good time.
My mum knows people in the village who died or were affected by Agent Orange who had kids who are disabled. I could have been an orphan. So many things could have gone wrong but here I am… I realise how lucky I am to be here.
A bloke like Kyle Sandilands, he’s never boring.
My mum raised three kids on her own on sweatshop wages of about six bucks an hour so there was a lot of late rent and landlords knocking on the door.
I was one of the quietest guys in school.
I’m not a megaphone sort of guy. I just let my art talk for itself.
A lot of being a comedian is about observing people.
Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you ‘perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.
Someone once told me… ‘Anh believe in your dreams!’ I always have and always will, and I think that if you follow your dreams in life, you really can live an amazing life.
I am naturally a very curious person.
I thought my father had forgotten about me. But I realised that he missed me as much as I missed him.
Now that I have four kids, I realise you love your kids forever, no matter what.
Yeah, my mum’s awesome. I love my mum so much.
My father fought alongside Aussie and U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.
This mum comes up, she’s got a five-year-old kid and she says, ‘Can he have your autograph, you are his favourite person in the whole world.’ I thought, ‘How cool is that? I’ve got five-year-old fans,’ and as I’m signing this autograph, the mum goes, ‘Yeah, yeah, you’re by far the best Wiggle.’
I’m interested in everything about people. Not just, ‘what do you do for a living?’ but I want to know about their fears and sadnesses and listen to their regrets, both sides of it, the happy and the sad.
Many people told me not to call the book ‘… Refugee’ because Aussies won’t buy it. I told them I have faith in Aussies, and it makes me a proud Aussie to see that the title hasn’t hurt the book.
I’m quite a private person.
I was a Vietnamese kid with a mullet hair cut. I had all Westie mates, and, geez, a Vietnamese guy with a mullet doesn’t work; no wonder I couldn’t get a girlfriend for so many years.
