Yakuza's Quotes

#1. There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

John Foster

#2. When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

Celina Jade

#3. You have to watch your step with women these days, Pops. She could be involved with Yakuza or something. Even some of the girls in my class
you should hear the stuff they talk about. Fifteen years old, and there's nothing they don't know. We're not in the age of Peace and Love anymore.

Ryu Murakami

#4. Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy or some technical genius. It used to be such a joke, to be laughed at rather than with.

Sung Kang

#5. Israel's journey from Egypt to Canaan is peppered with strange events: the earth swallows a clan, almond blossoms sprout from a rod, and a donkey opens its mouth to argue with a wayward prophet. Who says the Bible is dull?

Preston Sprinkle

#6. Yoga is fundamentally aimed at enhancing your experience beyond the five senses.

Sadhguru

#7. I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

Jude Law

#8. I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.

John Foster

#9. The truth of the world is exhausting.

Don DeLillo

#10. Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'

Sung Kang

#11. The Japanese Mafia. Tell me something, Jason, you ever hear anyone describe our thing as 'The Sicilian Yakuza'? Huh?

Neal Stephenson

#12. It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

Dimebag Darrell

#13. I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one ... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

Matt Ryan

#14. Better to die than live in sleep.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#15. I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

Jeffrey Combs

#16. It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

Gerard Manley Hopkins