Sessue Hayakawa Quotes

"I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything."
- Sessue Hayakawa
(Related: Time, America, Friends, Man, Old, Word)

"I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese."
- Sessue Hayakawa
(Related: Clothes, Dress, Want)

"My one ambition is to play a hero."
- Sessue Hayakawa
(Related: Ambition, Play)

"That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again."
- Sessue Hayakawa
(Related: Reason)