Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawais a Japanese-American actor, sports physiologist, martial artist and stuntman...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth27 September 1960
CountryJapan
school media years
There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"
art memories negative
Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.
good-day native-american gone
Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.
beach venice apollo
I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!
thinking media color
In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.
friday monday powerful
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.
relationship
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.
globally life studied
The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.
originally
I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.
believe healing self
I really believe that breath, in and of itself can become the ultimate self-healing tool.
mistake fall standing
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.
too-much week working-it
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.
character writing brain
I'm not a method actor, I don't write my character's history or all those kinds of things. I'm more about the 90 percent of the brain that is subconscious. I like to just pick certain pieces, let it soak in, and then let it kind of emerge out.
moving trying movement
There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film...