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Chiaki Kuriyama

"I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie."

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"I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie."

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"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."

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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."

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"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."

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"One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand."

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"At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns."

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"I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity."

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Akiroq Brost

"These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that."

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"Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages."

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Akiroq Brost

"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."

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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."
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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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"It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script."
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"I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories."
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"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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"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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Chiaki Kuriyama
"I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie."
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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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"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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"Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood."
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