Occupation: Actor Birth: December 8, 1936 Death: June 3, 2009
Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great..
The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version..
I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner..
I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west ….
There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent..
I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography..
Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books….
One thing I've noticed is that I can tell when a young actor or a young actress is going to become a huge star. Everybody else will say, "Oh come on,….
I think it may have been Tom Wolfe (if it wasn't, my apologies, Tom, and my apologies to whoever it was) who said in print once, 'David Carradine liv….
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor..
I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back..
It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought wel….
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't s….
But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography.….
If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Contin….
I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worke….
Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of we….
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way..
Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how….
I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a fun….
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and….