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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.

You will have to defy the odds, for you to become extraordinary.

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.

I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.

I'd like to live on horseback and just be a cowboy.

I support the president 100 percent - when hes right.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.