Masi Oka
Masi Oka
Masayori "Masi" Okais a Japanese American actor and digital effects artist. He became widely known for his role on NBC's Heroes as Hiro Nakamura and in CBS' Hawaii Five-0 as Doctor Max Bergman...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth27 December 1974
CityTokyo, Japan
CountryJapan
keys done digital
The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated,
thinking artist acting
I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.
thinking ideas interesting
The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.
hurt life-lesson live-life
I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson. I would rather have believed in someone and get hurt than live life with distrust. I always go into a relationship with trust.
real smart book
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.
school college taught-us
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
appreciation thinking people
I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving.
fun superhero challenges
Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.
being-yourself school unique
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.
drama hero character
At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.
thinking artist perspective
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.
life nice thinking
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.