Quotes About Chiaki

#1. We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

Cornel West

#2. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.

Thomas More

#3. People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.

Arina Tanemura

#4. 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

#5. When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

David Cameron

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#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.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#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.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#14. He who reads, shall find answers He seeks.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Experience had proven that the only way these regulations would be heeded was if they were implemented by force.

Azar Nafisi

#16. Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.

Frederick Lenz

#17. I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

Taylor Swift

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

Chiaki Kuriyama

#19. 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

#20. It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.

Mirra Alfassa

#21. 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

#22. Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.

Philip Jenkins

#23. Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Anais Nin

#24. I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. It is a matter of indifference to me. I do not think I am altogether right.

Albert Fish

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

Chiaki Kuriyama

#26. 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

#27. You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

Joaquin Andujar

#28. 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

#29. Everything seems impossible until you see success.

Ron Willingham

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

Chiaki Kuriyama

#31. 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