Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

Kung fu: You've got to spend your whole life at it before you're kung fu.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

If you take a bus, you should know when to get off!".

The Chinese words ‘kung fu’ translate more or less as ‘a man hard at work over a long time’. If you want to unlock the full power of kung fu, it is not going to be easy: you are going to have to work, you are going to have to sacrifice and you are going to have to suffer – over a long time. There really is no such thing as a free lunch.