Quotes by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Page 1

Hollywood is my day job.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Day Job
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I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Bad Guys
Guy
People
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Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Actors
Character
Way
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I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Originally
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My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.
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Native
Warrior
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The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Studied
Globally
Hawaiian
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In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.
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Grandfather
Hawaii
Years
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When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Too Much
Week
Working It
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I really believe that breath, in and of itself can become the ultimate self-healing tool.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Believe
Healing
Self
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You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines.
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Guy
Lines
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You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Release
Anything Else
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I really believe that breath, in and of itself... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.
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Ultimate
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American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.
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Comedy
Kind
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Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Easy
Easy Things
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Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Careers
People
Use
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Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.
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Kids
Adults
Needs
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People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Guy
People
Play
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I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Breathing
Take Care
Believe I Believe Body
Depending
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That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Actors
Worst
Yeah
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I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.
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People
Projects
Remember
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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.
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Excited
Force
Mind
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The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out.
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Behind You
Bigger
Worst
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In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Actor
Color
Media
Thinking
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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.
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Men
Guy
Powerful
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Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
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Genes
Ran
Tokyo
Aristocrat
Detour
Join
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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.
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Men
People
Real
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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!
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Apollo
Beach
Venice
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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.
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Hollywood
Mind
People
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The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different type of celebrity.
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Relationship
One Thing
Type
I Am Me People
Relationship I Am Me
Relationship Me I Am
Different Kind
The One Thing
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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 artist.
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Artist
People
Smart
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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 seeing wimpy Asian actors.
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Age
Acting
Tired
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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.
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Fall
Mistake
Standing
Stand
Times
How Many Times
Stand Up
Whether
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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.
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Acting
Depth
Hollywood
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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 much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.
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Army
Brain
Childhood
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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 gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.
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Art
Memories
Negative
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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 reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.
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Energy
Good Day
Native American
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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 there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.
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Force
Friday
Monday
Powerful
Big Part
Spend
Outdoors
Remind
Whenever
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To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted out, "How much do I have to pay?" It was just like a dream come true. That was an amazing experience.
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Dream
Directors
Top 10
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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.
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Movement
Moving
Trying
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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.
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Brain
Character
Writing
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I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."
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Giving
Glasses
Play
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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 remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"
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Media
School
Years
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In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.
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America
Country
Creativity
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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.
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Art
Character
Directors
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