My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.
Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.
I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.
I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.
I have made a lot of mistakes.
As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.
I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.
Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.
I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.
