Quotes About Culture

I play a nobody in Japan.

In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime.

Shooting in Japan was one of the best working experiences of my entire life.

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.

I'm living the American dream, but I'm in Japan.

Football in Japan is highly looked upon, even more than in the rest of Asia.

There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

You should hear the guy who dubs me in Japan. I like him the most. He has a high squeaky voice.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

Half my fan mail comes from Japan.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.