Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Whole life have balance. Everything be better. Understand?

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

Look eye! Always look eye!

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

I didn't have a childhood.

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity

The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as in practicing subserviency to God's revealed will; it lends a grace and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest.

Fortunately for Dimitri, I had his back.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.