Tao Okamoto Quotes

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But it just happened. When I started studying and getting on stage, it just came to me. I never said 'I want to be an actress.' It just happened. I started discovering myself and realized I loved it.

I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.

Each of us will figure out our own way.

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

If the advice is simply to respect yourself and follow the path that you want to follow, that would be the best advice I could ever pass on.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

You can go through the process. You can also change. You can do both. Uh, you can do one, the other, or both. And I think it depends on the individual.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.

Your children are not your children. They are lives longing for itself. They come here with their own destiny. Give them your love. They will find their own way.

There is no method except yourself.

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.