Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.

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.

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

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!

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.

The 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.