Chiaki Kuriyama Quotes

#1. When the outside intent (other than the intent of Pure Soul, Parbhaav) stops, he attains enlightened bliss of the Self (samadhi).

Dada Bhagwan

#2. 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

#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Try and maybe write a couple of articles for your local paper. Perhaps you need to go to college to learn some things that might help you on the way. If you've got enthusiasm, determination and you love your sport - why shouldn't you be doing my job?

Jill Douglas

#7. An ancient noise, like a fox bark, makes an attempt at the edges of my brain.

Emma Healey

#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. No, Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

Susan Glaspell

#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. I can be very dry and sarcastic.

Hayden Panettiere

#16. I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Less art, more matter

William Shakespeare

#19. 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

#20. There was only one thing to do, and he did it. Ignoring Bomazine's leering face, Ike reached down and took up a notch in his belt.

Phyllis R. Fenner

#21. Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Thomas Jefferson

#22. I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#23. 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.

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

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#25. I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

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