Okamoto Quotes

#1. I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Tao Okamoto

#2. Anyway,' she said more seriously this time, 'whatever it takes, find out what it is you're willing to suffer for. You've got to balance pleasure with pain in this life.

Okamoto Kanoko

#3. I remember when I was little, much younger than I was when I started modeling, people always said, 'Oh, you should be a model.' But I didn't like people telling me what to do ... But I didn't plan to transform into an actress, either. It just happened.

Tao Okamoto

#4. I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

Tao Okamoto

#5. I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

Tao Okamoto

#6. I may not believe what you believe but I do believe in your right to believe it.

Joe Beaton

#7. Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

Tao Okamoto

#8. My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

Tao Okamoto

#9. A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. Page 115

Sonia Sotomayor

#10. We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver

Tony Blair

#11. Strength is seeing yourself as you are.

Taro Okamoto

#12. Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

Tao Okamoto

#13. I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

Tao Okamoto

#14. If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.

Kofi Annan

#15. I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

Tao Okamoto

#16. Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not.

- The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon

Cyril Wong

#17. I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

Tao Okamoto

#18. Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

Tao Okamoto

#19. Everything in the world finds peace - eventually.

Tao Okamoto

#20. I love when a scene can almost be boring because it's so honest, you know.

Dito Montiel

#21. That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

Tao Okamoto

#22. I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie ... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Tao Okamoto

#23. Hugh Jackman is just the nicest person in the world. I know everybody says that, and it's almost boring to hear, but he is really, really perfect.

Tao Okamoto