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

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

Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that Americans were going to get a taste of Japanese action.

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

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