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.

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

The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out.

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?"

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

Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.