Rinko Quotes

#1. I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)

Yumi Tamura

#2. I like challenges. That's why if I read a script, and I feel, 'Oh, I can't do this,' I'll take that role, because if I feel like, 'Oh, I can do this,' I don't want to take that because I can't learn from that film.

Rinko Kikuchi

#3. I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.

Rinko Kikuchi

#4. I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.

Rinko Kikuchi

#5. Everyday was an adventure - ones you were directly involved in or those you observed others living through.

Lewis N. Rinko

#6. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

Don Bluth

#8. I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.

Rinko Kikuchi

#9. It's not that I'm confident, but I feel it's okay for me to continue taking photos.

Rinko Kawauchi

#10. People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek shelter from the rain, I gaze upon snails. These are things which you often do when you are a child aren't they? I have a very similar sensibility to that.

Rinko Kawauchi

#11. 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.

Rinko Kikuchi

#12. Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

Rinko Kikuchi

#13. It's not enough that [the photograph] is beautiful. If it doesn't move my heart, it won't move anyone else's heart.

Rinko Kawauchi

#14. I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, "Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest." This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't
think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.

Bill Hicks

#15. You've got a real headache of a boyfriend, kid.

Reki Kawahara

#16. Once you gave up the nervous craving to promote yourself, denigrate others, draw attention to your unique and special qualities, and ensure that you were first in the pecking order, you experienced an immense peace.

Karen Armstrong

#17. We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

Rinko Kikuchi

#18. There's something very ... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

Rinko Kikuchi

#19. I've seen 'Babel' four times. And each time I realize anew what a monumental project that had been for me.

Rinko Kikuchi

#20. When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

Rinko Kikuchi

#21. I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like 'Evangelion' and 'Ghost in the Shell.'

Rinko Kikuchi

#22. I think anybody who really knows me knows I'm not a media hound and knows that I'm really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in.

Monica Lewinsky

#23. Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.

Rinko Kikuchi

#24. When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Rinko Kikuchi

#25. I love film, any kind of genre.

Rinko Kikuchi

#26. Not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. It leads not to unification but to fragmentation. It does not bring grace; it destroys the soul.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#27. For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more.

Rinko Kawauchi

#28. From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.

Rinko Kawauchi

#29. All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#30. I channel surf like probably most people.

Ed O'Neill