When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

I've always been in a rebel.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth.

I'm a very emotional guy.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

The mind-speech-body’s atoms [indivisible part of matter] are ‘effective’. What does the [spiritual] ‘science’ say? Why do you experience the ‘effect’? You just have to ‘know’ the ‘effect’.

The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations

Do not desire to be recognized, but always desire to do your best to help humanity.

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.