Masi Oka Quotes
My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
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My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
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I wasn't a guy built to write about entertainment.
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[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
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My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
