American - Actress | January 17, 1989 -
My parents didn't get to have a dream. Their dream was to live in a country where their kids would have choice.
Kelly Marie Tran
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I truly did feel that I owed it to my parents, my grandparents, to do whatever it was that I wanted, because if I wasn't happy, if I wasn't being true to myself, then I wasn't living fully. They had given up so much so that I could live at the level that so many people are just automatically born into.
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If I am just, like, on a run by myself, I've never been stopped. Even if I'm at Target buying my own action figure, people would not believe that it's me. I actually was like, 'This is me!'
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You know who I was most nervous to meet, probably? Andy Serkis. I am such a huge fan.
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Seeing someone dressed up as your character is incredible.
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I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of 'yes and-ing' applies to everything.
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I think that Carrie is such an icon, not just as someone who played Princess Leia, but someone who was groundbreaking in that she was OK with being honest - brutally so, unapologetically so.
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I actually read 'The Last Jedi' before 'The Force Awakens' came out. It totally helped me, though! The idea of this franchise that I already knew was such a big cultural thing, I was sort of given this freedom to be honest with that character and not have this pressure of making her something else that we had already seen in this universe.
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I'm totally pro-porg! I would not eat a porg. They're so cute; you can't eat them. They're friends!
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Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.
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So much of me is because of what my parents experienced in this country. So much of me is because of the things my parents overcame so that I could have the luxury of having a dream.
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You find little ways to keep your mind at peace so that you can, at the end of the day, do the most important thing, which is do a good job.
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