Quotes from Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.

There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

I was excited about working with Richard Gere. Oh, and Joan Allen! Oh, my God, she is such a force of nature, it's mind boggling.

I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.

Hollywood is my day job.

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.

Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.

The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different type of celebrity.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.