Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere
Althea Rae Janairo, known professionally as Tia Carrere, is an American actress, model, voice actor, and singer who obtained her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth2 January 1967
CityHonolulu, HI
CountryUnited States of America
flying pilot scripts
It's pilot season. And I've got all these scripts flying in.
chord families family loving strikes
This bizarre, dysfunctional but loving family strikes a chord when there are so many untraditional families today.
chance child taking
I wanted to be there so much, but I wasn't taking a chance of having this child over the Pacific.
article claimed point reporter sound
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.
knew people speak
We're the only people they knew who could speak pidgin,
wonderful wonderful-experience wonderful-things
I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.
lasts plastic minutes
Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.
bus-stops hair wigs
I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.
fiber hemp natural
Did you know hemp is a natural fiber
girl jobs giving
Wayne's World was a turning point-after Wayne's World, it was like, "Who is this girl? Where did she come from? Let's give her another job. Have her come in and meet instead of read
years people acting
No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten years later-in Wayne's World people finally got to see me sing. And everyone thought it was dubbed in.
casinos parks roller-coaster
I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada.
roles hawaii proud
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.
taken skins tough-skin
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.