Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Kal Penn

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Kal Penn.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Kalpen Suresh Modi, known professionally as Kal Penn, is an American actor, author, academic lecturer and former White House staff member in the Barack Obama administration. As an actor, he is known for his role portraying Lawrence Kutner on the television program House, as well as White House staffer Seth Wright on Designated Survivor and Kumar Patel in the Harold & Kumar film series. He is also recognized for his performance in the film The Namesake. Penn has taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the Cinema Studies Program as a visiting lecturer.

American - Actor | Born: April 23, 1977

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

Kal Penn

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

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

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

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.

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

Kal Penn

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

Kal Penn

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

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

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

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 a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.

Kal Penn

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

Kal Penn

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

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

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

Kal Penn

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Kal Penn

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