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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. -- Orlando Bloom
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. -- Edward Zwick
The way of the Samurai is found in death. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. -- Quentin Tarantino
A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. -- Stan Sakai
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. -- Tsukahara Bokuden
It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good. -- Hiroyuki Sanada
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. -- Dustin Diamond
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers. -- Steven Spielberg
Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai. -- Jerzy Grotowski
It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that. -- Tom Cruise
As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit -- Yamaoka Tesshu
A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger. -- Chris Bradford
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail. -- Elon Musk
Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear. -- Enson Inoue
I wasn't hip to 'Samurai Jack' until I saw it, but then I was all, 'This show is awesome!' -- John DiMaggio
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. -- Roger Ebert
A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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. -- Lucy Liu
As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.' -- George Lucas
I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. -- Tony Goldwyn
In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side. -- Jim Jarmusch
What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' -- Chris Evans
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. -- Stephen Hunter
This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai: if by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. his whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love. -- Morihei Ueshiba
I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle. -- Jack Kornfield
Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it. -- John Wayne
Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords. -- Lucy Liu
My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit. -- Lyoto Machida
The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come. -- Lyoto Machida
Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai -- Carlson Gracie
This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan. -- Hiroyuki Sanada
I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself. -- Hiroyuki Sanada
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct. -- Alex Majoli
I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema. -- Alexander Payne
Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation. -- Stephanie Mills
My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection. -- Georges St-Pierre
I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot. -- Hiroyuki Sanada
Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around. -- Alexander Payne
When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock. -- Hiroyuki Sanada
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. -- David Carradine
I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation. -- Tony Jaa
I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is. -- Masaharu Morimoto
You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing. -- Al Madrigal
I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. -- Yvon Chouinard
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said. -- George Lucas
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. -- George Lucas
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films. -- Junot Diaz
I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend. -- Virat Kohli
Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief. -- Ray Park
It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up. -- Enson Inoue
How could he possibly bow deeply enough to honor a thousand-year-old samurai queen? -- Nadia Scrieva
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened. -- Lester Cole
No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam! -- Gina Marinello-Sweeney
A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words. -- Sandy Fussell
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The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men. -- Yoshida Shoin
We are the same, you and I. Whether samurai or night-hawk, the Suruga Dainagon or member of the Toudouza, it makes no difference. My sword is the proof.... -- Takayuki Yamaguchi
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a â??function', one cog in a machine. -- Yukio Mishima
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment. -- Kato Kiyomasa
The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. -- Nabeshima Naoshige
If you learn to lead your life strategically and strongly, you can overcome the opposition. But running away, you never overcome anything. The pathway to enlightenment is for the warrior, the samurai. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers. -- Nagisa Oshima

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