Kazuchika Okada Quotes

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.

So much changes in a year when you're a teenager.

College is a time where a lot of people try to find themselves.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.