Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.

I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

A good sword is the one left in its scabbard.

I've always been really interested in the age of the samurai in Japan.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.

Give me a sword fight any day.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

Another point of extraordinary importance is that, in all the history of Japan since the beginning, the country ‘has never once felt the shame of foreign conquest.’

The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.

I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense skill and is very stoic and doesn't talk much.

I've always wanted to play a samurai warrior.

I believe samurai in the Edo period and modern hip-hop artists have something in common. Rappers open the way to their future with one microphone; samurai decided their fate with one sword.

There is definitely a Japanese influence on my style. I spent several years back and forth training over there, training at the New Japan Dojo in Los Angeles and picking up various techniques from wherever I go.

I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.