I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.
I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how.
There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.
I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than anything, for me as an actor, it's about challenging myself and doing as many different things as I can.
I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.
In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.
I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are?