David Carradine quotes His role as Kwai Chang Caine in the series Kung Fu Born: 12/08/1936 Died: 06/04/2009 Country: usa

• Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of course, you never do or you do it for a couple of weeks and slough it back off again but I'm being forced to do something that I really want to do and I loved it. (David Carradine) [training/being]
• 'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great. (David Carradine)
• But the character in Kill Bill comes pretty close. No doubt about it. Probably the best performance I've given. I mean, ever. (David Carradine) [character]
• But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting. (David Carradine) [bad/think]
• I actually went to art school. I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything. (David Carradine) [art/school/music]
• I didn't leave, I mean I did the TV series for three years, and when that was done I walked, and then there was a period of time where I was making my own movies and financing them myself, and I needed money, I had to work, you know, and I started doing little movies cause they were there. (David Carradine) [time/money]
• I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk. (David Carradine) [needs]
• I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster. (David Carradine) [think]
• I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse? (David Carradine) [remember/network]
• I think there's also something that Quentin wants to tell us - they are comic book characters, the people in Kill Bill, but that they are sort of superheroes, or super villains, or super something. They are beyond the problems of humanity, beyond the day-to-day stuff. (David Carradine) [think/people/villains]
• I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back. (David Carradine)
• I wasn't prepared for the quality of the second movie. I don't mean the quality like how good it was, but the kind of movie; that it's so emotional. When you're dealing with that stuff with the kid, I've seen girls cry. You don't cry in a Tarantino movie. It turns out it's a chick flick. (David Carradine) [quality/movie/quality/movie]
• I'm a trained ballet dancer. (David Carradine)
• I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with. (David Carradine) [heavy]
• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. (David Carradine)
• In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way. (David Carradine)
• It turned out that this stuff that the Chinese guys do is not really kung fu. It's very different and I did need to learn how to do that. (David Carradine)
• It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift. (David Carradine) [day/think/more/girls]
• Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver. (David Carradine) [actors/time/training]
• My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk. (David Carradine) [fight/movie/decision/right]
• Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part. (David Carradine) [books/think/books]
• Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right. (David Carradine) [right]
• 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) [air travel]
• Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it. (David Carradine) [director/start/help]
• The success of the '86 movie with Brandon Lee demanded some kind of continuation. Plus, I had always contemplated a modern version. (David Carradine) [movie/plus]
• There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way. (David Carradine) [combination]
• Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film. (David Carradine) [think/love/think/film]
• Well, I'm not afraid of anything. (David Carradine)
• Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all. (David Carradine)
• Yes, I always enjoy working on cartoons. (David Carradine) [cartoons]
• You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor. (David Carradine) [death/think]

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