Chiaki X Quotes & Sayings

Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training. — Chiaki Kuriyama

He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword ... unless he's a general. — Brian Spellman

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad. — Chiaki Kuriyama

The extremists had declared jihad against anyone and anything that challenged their vision of a pure Islamic society, and these artifacts - treatises about logic, astrology, and medicine, paeans to music, poems idealizing romantic love - represented five hundred years of human joy. They celebrated the sensual and the secular, and they bore the explicit message that humanity, as well as God, was capable of creating beauty. They were monumentally subversive. — Joshua Hammer

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood. — Chiaki Kuriyama

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out. — Chiaki Kuriyama

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, your the government. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys. — John Whitmore

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires. — Chiaki Kuriyama

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school. — Chiaki Kuriyama

It's just a base hit, people. It means nothing unless we put a string of them together. — Barry Lyga

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script. — Chiaki Kuriyama

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think. — Chiaki Kuriyama

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together. — Chiaki Kuriyama

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. — Chiaki Kuriyama

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. — Johann Lamont

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning. — Chiaki Kuriyama

I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie. — Chiaki Kuriyama

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that. — Chiaki Kuriyama

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. — Donald Rumsfeld

We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies. — Brian Lindstrom

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured. — Frank Herbert

You must remember that no one can hurt you, use you or take advantage of you unless you allow it. — Santonu Kumar Dhar

I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories. — Chiaki Kuriyama

It's amazing how a conversation between two moms ends up sounding like a battle between people with Tourette's. — Heather Balog

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness. — Alexandra Stoddard

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. — Robert Jay Lifton

Japan is very much a TV-centered entertainment industry. So, when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies. — Chiaki Kuriyama

The forest rose about this open glade like an amphitheatre, in golden terraces of horsechestnut and beech. The big nuts dropped velvety and brown, as if they had been soaked in oil, and disappeared in the dry leaves below. Little black yew trees, that had not been visible in the green of summer, stood out among the curly yellow brakes. Through the grey netting of the beech twigs, stiff holly bushes glittered. — Willa Cather

You don't wait for love to happen to you. You go out there and feel the breeze and sniff the air! The fragrance of love will come wafting towards you in no time! — Avijeet Das

A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime. — Chiaki Kuriyama

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain. — Chiaki Kuriyama

People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either. — Arina Tanemura