Tadanobu Asano Quotes

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast.

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.