Latest Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Quotes from Interviews

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

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  Kids, Adults, Needs

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• In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.

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  Years, Grandfather, Hawaii

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• I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

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  People, Guy, Bad Guys

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

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  People, Remember, Projects

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

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Guy, Lines

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• The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Behind You, Bigger, Worst

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• I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Mind, Excited, Force

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• Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

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  Careers, People, Use

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• American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Comedy, Kind

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• Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

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  Easy, Easy Things

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• Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art directors who just don't know what' s what with Japanese culture, then pretty soon something's just passed through. I've been through many times where I've pointed out the incorrectness of so much of what's been done to a set.

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  Art, Character, Directors

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• There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"

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  School, Media, Years

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• Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

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  Army, Childhood, Brain

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• Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Art, Memories, Negative

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.

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  Native American, Good Day, Energy

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• There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

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  Moving, Trying, Movement

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• 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.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Smart, Artist, People

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Men, Guy

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• 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.

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  Acting, Depth, Hollywood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Actors, Yeah, Worst

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• People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Play, People, Guy

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• I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

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  Glasses, Play, Giving

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• 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.

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  People, Mind, Hollywood

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

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  Character, Actors, Way

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• 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.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Tired, Age, Acting

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