Tao Okamoto Quotes

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.

Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

I think I'll get a little more interesting small parts and see if I can really... I guess you don't have to have the pressure on you compared to when you're a leading man in a film.

I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.

I try to do more intelligent roles, unusual roles, and stronger women, and that's helped me a little bit with my casting opportunities.

You just start going through that process of trying to put together a cast that works. I don't know that I can explain it in a way that you can go, 'Oh.' It's a little bit like saying, 'How would he be with him? How does that feel?'

All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and started looking at what was available - I obviously couldn't play Gloria; I couldn't play Claire. When I saw the character of Cam, I was like, 'I have to have a shot at this,' because I thought it was a character that would be really fun to play.

Who knows if I would get to do 'Mr. Robot' if I was on 'Mr. Robinson?'

I like movies because I've been getting leads, and TV is more about ensemble casts.

I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.