The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Ken Watanabe
- English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
- I’m not a big star in Japan. I’m an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn’t do that.
- If I’m in a restaurant, and someone recognizes me and asks for a signature or a photograph after a drink, that’s good for me as an actor.
- I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.
- As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors who have many different kinds of talents. I feel like nationally doesn’t matter at all.
- All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.
- I can’t become another person, no matter how much makeup I wear. Something of your own past, your experiences and personality always comes out in the role, and that makes acting very risky. You’re exposed. You always wonder if you can pull it off.
- My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.
- Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.
- With ‘Letters from Iwo Jima,’ then ‘Memories of Tomorrow,’ I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.
Ken Watanabe is a Japanese actor born on October 21, 1959, in Uonuma, Niigata, Japan. He began his acting career in the early 1980s, gaining fame for his performances in Japanese television dramas and films such as Tampopo and Heaven and Earth.
Watanabe achieved international recognition for his role as Lord Katsumoto in The Last Samurai (2003), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
He went on to appear in major Hollywood productions including Batman Begins, Inception, Letters from Iwo Jima, and Memoirs of a Geisha. Renowned for his dignified screen presence and emotional depth, Watanabe has become one of Japan’s most respected actors.
He also earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the Broadway revival of The King and I. Beyond acting, he has courageously battled leukemia and become an inspirational figure for resilience and cultural representation in cinema.
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