Words matter. These are the best Tamlyn Tomita Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.
Barbara Feldon on ‘Get Smart,’ I wanted to be her.
The wonderful John Avildsen was a hero and father figure who was really present in my life even though we didn’t have day-to-day or year-to-year.
I’m looking for projects where race is not an issue.
We are all woven of different colored threads and strengths and colors. We are all a part of something bigger, a very special part of something that continues to evolve. A more perfect union.
I think that the story of mothers and daughters is so universal.
Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.
I don’t think as a society, as a nation we would ever wear swastikas openly again, but aligning ourselves with the kind of rhetoric or the the the kind of language that’s being used and ascribed to certain groups of people or certain religions can be repeated.
We have to support everyone so their stories don’t get ‘invisibilized.’ We don’t necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of color, but it’s just about saying ‘We have hearts, we have souls, we have minds, we have faults, we have flaws, and we’re super-freaking interesting.’
I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to – to just play a woman who falls in love, or works as a clerk, or whatever – and then, if you want to, to have that luxury to bring in the cultural heritage.
Aren’t we all ‘Star Trek’ fans? That’s the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!
I absolutely adore Vancouver, it’s really been my second home.
But I’m proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.
We have to look beyond what we see as the typical, the ‘normal package,’ and just see people as who they are. We all have to learn and get along a little better in society.
It’s always the great thing about being involved in such a legacy series such as ‘Star Trek’ is you’ll always want to know more about the characters that you love.
I knew I looked kind of ridiculous, in my personal opinion – Tamlyn Tomita’s opinion – a Vulcan in sunglasses and ears is a little too much, but I knew I just had to play it seriously.
I did not want to become an actor.
It’s funny you can pretty much substitute the same actors in that top tier, whether it’s a Chris Evans or a Chris Pratt or a Chris Pine, for different movies and it becomes almost a joke. But it doesn’t happen that way for people of color.
For me, for every single job, I don’t care if it is a reading, I don’t care if it is a guest spot on a TV show, or a film. I always get the heebie jeebies.
There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.
I’ve been really lucky and been able to live a gypsy life for a long time.
So if they happen to be over the age of 35 and they’re male? They’re probably going to recognize me from ‘The Karate Kid Part II.’
We can serve as bridges, we who identify as hyphenated Americans, because we are all global citizens, and that’s why being cognizant of our histories is important.
Our old stories happen to be your new stories. The stories that you’re seeing as immigrant stories are your grandparents’ stories, are your great-grandparents’ stories. You just happen to be separated from them a little bit.
Not everybody’s journey is easy, and it wouldn’t be worthwhile if you can’t see what you gained without realizing what kind of battles you’ve been through, what kind of scars you have.
Film and television are major vehicles for American storytelling, and America is the biggest exporter and influencer in the world in terms of telling stories.
We are a part of this unique, complex, and complicated fabric of what it means to be an American. Americans come in all colors, creeds, and colors of the rainbow, and we can celebrate this together.
The only reason I even learned Japanese was to figure out what my parents were getting me for Christmas.
My father’s grandfather was in Heart Mountain.
Of course, if you’re going to enter the ‘Star Trek’ Universe, you want to work with Spock, you want to work with Kirk, you want to work with McCoy, and Scotty, and Sulu, and Uhura. The next one for me would have been Picard.
Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, ‘So, where were you interned?’
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them – I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma.
The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes – totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.
When I went in for ‘The Good Doctor,’ I had just been released from ‘Berlin Station.’ And when I got the initial role for the ‘Good Doctor’ pilot, her name was Allegra Abe. That was the script.
I’m much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.
