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Masi Oka
Japanese
Actor
Born:
Dec 27
,
1974
Acting
Me
People
Think
World
You
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Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.
Masi Oka
Life
You
Live Life
Try
Important
Nice
Live
Older
Think
Never
Like
Know
Learn
Comfortable
Because
Get
Going
Different
Might
Fullest
Even
Different Things
Routines
Things
I would say that there's definitely some advantages with me being able to talk shop with some of the effects people. Because I come from a post-production world, I can speak shorthand with them. I don't think many other actors can say that and know how the process 100% works.
Masi Oka
Me
People
Speak
World
Think
Other
Say
Definitely
Post-Production
Would
Able
Some
Advantages
Come
Know
Talk
Because
How
Effects
Shop
Being
Process
Them
Shorthand
Many
Works
Actor
Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.
Masi Oka
Faith
You
Yourself
Hero
Just
Anyone
Anonymity breeds irresponsibility.
Masi Oka
Anonymity
Irresponsibility
Breeds
I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.
Masi Oka
School Days
School
College
Back
Piano
Days
Sang
Cappella
Elementary
Elementary School
Played
Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.
Masi Oka
Good
Game
Sense
Programming
Background
Feasible
Good Sense
Coming
Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.
Masi Oka
Me
Challenge
Superhero
Acting
Fun
Playing
I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.
Masi Oka
Life
Time
Day
Book
Smart
Lost
Real Life
Every
Other
Every Time
Definitely
Cab
House
Real
Leave
Jacket
Forget
Just
Street
Things
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
Masi Oka
Science
School
College
Computer Science
Programming
High
High School
High School And College
Through
Computer
Stuck
Computers
Since
Been
Taught
Where
Us
Elementary
Elementary School
I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.
Masi Oka
You
Perspective
Think
See
Able
Scientific
Scientist
Artist
Artistic
Things
I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.
Masi Oka
You
Yourself
Opportunity
Thought
College
Be Yourself
Other
Saw
Brown
Individual
Blank
Blank Slate
Had
Allowed
Like
Know
Schools
Because
Said
Got
Go
Friends
Going
Just
Different
Different Schools
Unique
Chose
Slate
I am a geek. I am an otaku.
Masi Oka
Geek
Am
To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.
Masi Oka
Director
Feedback
Direct
Invaluable
Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.
Masi Oka
Good
You
Own
Else
Worry
Solitary
About
Someone
Scene
Performance
Look
Because
Very
Acting
Your
Even
I was raised by a single mother, and she felt the Japanese education system, albeit wonderful, keeps you in a certain range. You have to be better than this level but below this level.
Masi Oka
Education
You
Wonderful
Better
Mother
Single
Range
System
She
Felt
Single Mother
Than
Japanese
Certain
Keeps
Level
Albeit
Raised
Below
In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.
Masi Oka
Chasing
Big
Field
Asteroid
Out
Through
Write
Had
Shatter
Pieces
How
Artist
Episode
Use
Show
Figure
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Code
Million
Needed
One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.
Masi Oka
Emotions
Took
Touch
More
Learn
Up
Get
Human
Human Emotions
Acting
Reasons
If you look at Japanese drama, I think there is definitely a treasure trove of it, but I just don't think that people know about it. It's got to be pitched and presented better.
Masi Oka
You
People
Better
Think
Drama
Definitely
About
Know
Look
Got
Just
Japanese
Treasure
Presented
I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.
Masi Oka
Great
Happy
World
Share
Content
Am
Western
Very
Western World
Japanese
Help
Treasure
My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.
Masi Oka
Great
Library
Research
Ways
Like
House
Call
Because
Get
Manga
Many
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