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

I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

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.

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.