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

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

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

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I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Did you know hemp is a natural fiber'

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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.

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I can't sit on grass without a blanket.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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