I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

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

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

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

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.

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

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