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I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

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 look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.