#karate

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

I practice karate moves when I think nobody is watching. It’s all part of being a real American badass, I guess. Chicks dig it. I mean they would, if they ever looked and caught me in a moment of awesomeness.
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— Jarod Kintz

#badass #karate #life #moment-of-awesomeness #practice

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#eventually #fighting #got #grew #had

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#brother-in-law #died #expert #first #first time

I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#arts #doing #i #i always #idea

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#further #go #karate #know #technique

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#clean #concentration #dedicate #everything #karate

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#back #business #college #did #how

I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#brought #call #called #commercial #complete

John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth. ↗

— David Wong

#john #karate #whoosh #funny