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

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

I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people.

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

I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?

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.

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