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Mako Quotes
Japanese
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Actor
December 10, 1933 - July 21, 2006
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
Mako
Moon
Weird
America
School
Architect
Banquet
Lured
Along
Became
Become
Came
First
How
I Came
Interested
Line
Play
Something
Somewhere
Still
Theater
While
I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
Mako
Time
Happy
Speak
Video Games
Draw
Entertainment
My Time
Occupy
Video
Child
Form
Games
Little
Lot
Radio
Read
Since
Television
Terms
Things
Those
Two
Used
Very
Would
I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'
Mako
No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
Mako
People
Matter
Say
Act
Asian-American
People Say
Actor
Happens
I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
Mako
You
Man
Go
Think
Hey
Navy
Again
Boy
Days
Director
Film
Grew
He
Here
I Think
Know
Office
Oh
Says
Up
Watching
Who
Young
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako
Day
Villain
Fighting
Artist
Capable
Combat
Day One
East
Formed
Fulfilling
Gardener
Martial
Stereotypes
Waiter
Against
Been
Course
Just
More
Reason
Show
Than
West
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