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

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 yo….

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..

You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines..

Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty….

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that the….

I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artis….

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of se….

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

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

Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of rea….

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

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people..

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling..

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?".

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 ga….

There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to re….

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 wer….

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….

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