Kazuchika Okada Quotes

I had no dream of being a movie star.

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

I didn't always know that I want to be an actor, but I always knew I wanted to be famous in anything that I do.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

It's so odd because I don't even know if I'm cut out for it, but being a movie star guy, I sort of end up gravitating toward the Coen brothers. That's one of the reasons my wife and I moved to L.A.: that however much of a pipe dream that would be, I moved to L.A. because I'd love to work with the Coen brothers.

When I was younger, I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry.

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be the girl next door. I came to be a movie star.

My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.

I'm not an actor who is trying to be a movie star.

I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.