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

Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

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.

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

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

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

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.