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I’m interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the stories I want to see onscreen and on the pages.

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I’ve been really lucky and been able to live a gypsy life for a long time.

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As a community, as a group of people as a society, Asian Americans have not always been visible, but we’ve always been present.

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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.

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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.

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I think that the story of mothers and daughters is so universal.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I didn’t want to be trapped in an idea of replicating other ‘Star Trek‘ characters; especially Vulcans. But my love and I have Spock paraphernalia all over our house. He’s an omnipresence in our lives, we adore him.

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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.

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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.

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Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, ‘So, where were you interned?’

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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.

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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.

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If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.

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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.

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But I’m proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.

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You can’t escape ‘Star Trek’ influence, especially characters you literally grew up with.

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I did not want to become an actor.

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Barbara Feldon on ‘Get Smart,’ I wanted to be her.

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I’m much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

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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.

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I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors – men and women – is pretty small, that whatever project is out there I probably have been asked to audition or I probably chose to not go in it for various aspects.

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There is an attitude that Okinawans have about Japan itself. There is a resentment.

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I remember reading one of those big history texts in elementary school, and in that whole book there was one paragraph that mentioned that Japanese-Americans were interned. I went home and asked my father, ‘You weren’t, were you?’ He said, ‘Yes, I was.’ I was shocked.

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I just tell young people to find their way. Keep your eyes open. Keep your ears open and keep your heart open.

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Aren’t we all ‘Star Trek’ fans? That’s the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!

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I’m looking for projects where race is not an issue.

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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.’

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