What I had found after the success of Karate Kid II is that an actor basically needs to - a primary requirement… — Tamlyn Tomita Character Copy Share Image
I think that the story of mothers and daughters is so universal. — Tamlyn Tomita Children Copy Share Image
We have to support everyone so their stories don't get 'invisibilized.' We don't necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with… — Tamlyn Tomita Flaws Copy Share Image
It's always the great thing about being involved in such a legacy series such as 'Star Trek' is you'll always want to… — Tamlyn Tomita Great Copy Share Image
Aren't we all 'Star Trek' fans? That's the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything! — Tamlyn Tomita Cartoons Copy Share Image
My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish… — Tamlyn Tomita Everyday Copy Share Image
We are all woven of different colored threads and strengths and colors. We are all a part of something bigger, a very… — Tamlyn Tomita Colors Copy Share Image
We are a part of this unique, complex, and complicated fabric of what it means to be an American. Americans come in… — Tamlyn Tomita Celebrate Copy Share Image
JACL has always been at the very forefront of making sure citizens' civil rights remain intact. They fight wholeheartedly against discrimination, prejudice… — Tamlyn Tomita Bias Copy Share Image
People love that kind of beginning, middle, and end. They like that comfort of turning on the TV week-to-week and being entertained… — Tamlyn Tomita Comfort Copy Share Image
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the… — Tamlyn Tomita Mother Copy Share Image
The thing I found in correlation with my studies as a history major was that experience taught me you have to figure… — Tamlyn Tomita Acting Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky and been able to live a gypsy life for a long time. — Tamlyn Tomita Life Copy Share Image
For me, for every single job, I don't care if it is a reading, I don't care if it is a guest… — Tamlyn Tomita Always Copy Share Image
There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment. — Tamlyn Tomita About Copy Share Image
I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors - men and women - is pretty small, that… — Tamlyn Tomita Go Copy Share Image
When I went in for 'The Good Doctor,' I had just been released from 'Berlin Station.' And when I got the initial… — Tamlyn Tomita Berlin Copy Share Image
Don't make the body fit into the clothes. It really is, it's really respecting an individual and trying to cater to that… — Tamlyn Tomita Dealing with people Copy Share Image
If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence. — Tamlyn Tomita Fortunate Copy Share Image
I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to - to just play a woman who falls in love, or works… — Tamlyn Tomita Cultural heritage Copy Share Image
I've never been funny. I don't think I'm funny. People say I'm funny. I go, 'No. No. I'm not.' But again, knowing… — Tamlyn Tomita Challenges Copy Share Image
Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not. — Tamlyn Tomita Always Copy Share Image
I usually try to connect with young filmmakers over the phone so I can hear them and just pick their brain as… — Tamlyn Tomita Brain Copy Share Image
Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we… — Tamlyn Tomita Desire Copy Share Image
I remember reading one of those big history texts in elementary school, and in that whole book there was one paragraph that… — Tamlyn Tomita Books Copy Share Image
