The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

In great troubles, we learn to trust in God.

Be patient and wait for due harvest.

We left Germany when I was 11.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.