Sessue Hayakawa's Quotes

I have come East to find what the public likes.

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

My one ambition is to play a hero.

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.

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.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.