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Sessue Hayakawa Quotes

I have come East to find what the public likes.

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.

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

My one ambition is to play a hero.

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.