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.

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.

With love, give up better for the best and without a rest.

We live in the land of opportunities. People come from all over the world to hustle and work their way up to places that they could only imagine or dream of.

It was the inverse of an island in the sea.

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

I go to the real world, not the Internet.