Top 995 Quotes & Sayings by Japanese Authors - Page 8

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon. It's always there and continues to inspire humanity.

In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

Football has given me so many opportunities in life and now I want to play my role in supporting others through the game.

In the arcades, when I was younger, there was a game called 'King of Fighters 95,' and I thought I was pretty good. I had a 50-strong win streak on 'Street Fighter 2' around that time.

Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Our goal is not to be number one. Our aim is to be the only one.

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

Being a geek is a great thing. I think we're all geeks. Being a geek means you're passionate about something and that defines your uniqueness. I would rather be passionate about something than be apathetic about everything.

Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones.

My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.'

I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.

Man is a child of his environment.

I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

Haiti, if you've ever met a Haitian person, they are just really positive, and literally, if you're friends with them, then they will do anything for you. So I think that's something that is, like, a really good trait, and I'm really happy that my grandparents and my dad's side of the family is like that.

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 want to always keep going. I don't want to ever stop.

Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.

It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples' voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music.

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.

Japan has opened a new chapter in its history.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

Do nothing which is of no use.

I don't claim to be a pro gamer in any shape or form.

The FBRI will continue to carry out fundamental research mainly in fields where new medical treatments or medications are urgently required, such as cancer immunology, ageing and dementia.

The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

I like people to be loyal.

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

I get inspiration from my everyday life.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

For me, personally, I love delicious food when I'm stressed.

I notice that teams are now more interested in Japanese players than when I first went to Europe.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.

Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

I live between Europe, America and Asia.

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.