Tadanobu Quotes & Sayings

If you're famous, you're not free. — Tadanobu Asano

To Be different or follow another Way does not meant that our Heart is on the wrong Place. — Jan Jansen

You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.' — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country. — Malala Yousafzai

Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is infested with an aggressive strain of such invisible germs. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan. — Tadanobu Asano

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice. — Blaise Pascal

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan. — Tadanobu Asano

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for. — Tadanobu Asano

I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian. — Tadanobu Asano

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely. — Audrey Meadows

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself! — Tadanobu Asano

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid. — Tadanobu Asano

I surround myself with a talented group of people that are opinionated and interesting. I try to remain very open to what others have to say. — Anna Wintour

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills. — Willard Wigan

My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won't be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them. — Thomm Quackenbush

We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight. — Lane Kirkland

British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film. — Tadanobu Asano

Christian faith is as dead as Jesus. — Gerd Ludemann