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
people guy bad-guys
I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.
people remember projects
I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.
real men people
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.
play people guy
People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"
careers people use
Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.
smart artist people
I don't know if many people realize that Dolph Lundgren is a chemical engineer. He's not a dumb blond guy. This guy is smart and he's a martial artist.
people mind hollywood
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.
believe body care depending
I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.
My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.
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.
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!"
army childhood brain
Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.
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.