Tia Carrere Quotes (31 Quotes)


    If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

    That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.

    I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

    I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.

    Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.


    This bizarre, dysfunctional but loving family strikes a chord when there are so many untraditional families today.

    Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

    When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.


    When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.

    As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

    Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

    I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

    The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.

    I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

    I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.

    No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten years later-in Wayne's World people finally got to see me sing. And everyone thought it was dubbed in.

    I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

    I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

    People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

    I can't stand when people say, Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. OK, how about I hate you because you said that'

    I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

    I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

    When you're an actress, you feel like you have to constantly be running, running on the treadmill, or you're going to miss an opportunity,

    I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.


    Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

    This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

    The kids all knew me from Wayne's World. The grown-ups knew me after True Lies.

    I can't sit on grass without a blanket.

    I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.


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