I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Whole life have balance. Everything be better. Understand?

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

Look eye! Always look eye!

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

I didn't have a childhood.

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

I dropped out of college, started playing music. I was going to do what I was going to do and it is what it is.

Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political meanings, continues to sing his own peculiar and alluring song.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.