Quotes from Tamlyn Tomita

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

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 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.

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.'

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.

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 the story of mothers and daughters is so universal.

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.

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

My father's grandfather was in Heart Mountain.

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 absolutely adore Vancouver, it's really been my second home.

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.

The thing I found in correlation with my studies as a history major was that experience taught me you have to figure out your background, where you come from, who you are, and what you want. All of that propelled me into following acting because I had to develop characters as well as develop characters' history which is most important.

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.

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

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

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.