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.
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaPeople say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaThe power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaI'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.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa