Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.

People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"

I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.