Japanimation is a whole different art form.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.

The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy.

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.

Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

Working on the samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.