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Chiaki Kuriyama

"My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think."

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"My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think."

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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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Donna Grant

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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Donna Grant

"Thought is the parent of the deed."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning."

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Chiaki Kuriyama
"A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime."

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