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You can't just replace someone...

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

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

Half my family was from the Im...

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.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

There were times when I purpos...

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!'

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

Americans really don't underst...

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

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

Playing Japanese characters an...

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.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

American comedies about Asians...

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

I was excited about working wi...

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.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

Looking back at my career, if ...

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

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

The worst thing that can happe...

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

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

Before I started studying mart...

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.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

I've been in a lot of cult mov...

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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I have to humbly say people re...

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

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In Hawaii, there are 50-year-o...

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

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Kids keep getting wiser younge...

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

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I really believe that breath, ...

I really believe that breath, in and of itself can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

It's not whether you fall or m...

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.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

When you start working on a se...

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

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

Nature is a big part of my wee...

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.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

The power of Hollywood, as we ...

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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I'm not a method actor, I don'...

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.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 36 quotes

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