Tia Carrere

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

“I can't sit on grass without a blanket.”

“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'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I'm not really this rock'n'roll chick.”

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

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

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

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