Quotes About Culture

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

I've got lots of weird illustrations of me from Japanese fans.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.

I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.

A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.

The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America's a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

I'm not very happy to be classified as another Japanese designer. There is no one characteristic that all Japanese designers have.

As a kid living in an isolated desert town, the most diversity I saw in my media was Claudia Kishi, the Japanese American girl from 'The Baby-Sitters Club.'

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

I'm really grateful that I get a lot of Japanese press.

I love watching Japanese wrestling, and then Bryan will be like, 'Watch this' or 'See this.'