In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.
In Hawaii, there are 50-year-old grandfathers, because they got married so early.
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.
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.
Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.
Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.
You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines.
We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful. . . the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
There is one kind of charity common enough among us. . . It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being. . . [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.