Tao Okamoto Quotes

#1. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all

George Washington

#2. 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

#3. What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It's not your fault that you're a loser; it's the government's fault.

J.D. Vance

#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. It's no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it.

Tom Robbins

#6. 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

#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. Grow up. This is real. The world is ugly and nasty and fucked up, and so are we.

Leah Raeder

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Wislawa Szymborska

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Tao Okamoto

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

Ike Barinholtz

#21. Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

Laurie Anderson

#22. 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