I've always said that, growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!
I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.
For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
I will always have a stutter.
I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.
You always have to create the character from the ground up.
I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.
My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.
Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.
It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
Cheating during bouts has always existed.
I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. I can't go into detail, but while I was growing up, I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through.
I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.
But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!
It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.
Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room. In particular, I'm working on trying not to be that guy in my private life.
In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.
I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
