Emily Kuroda Quotes

United States, Actress
October 30, 1952

Emily Kuroda (born October 30, 1952) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Mrs. Kim on TV's, Gilmore Girls, but she has had a long career on stage and screen and is a veteran of East West Players, Los Angeles's premier Asian American theater group.

I probably didn't talk in public until eighth grade, and then in high school, I started doing oral interpretation - kind of like monologues. Through theater and plays, I started coming out of my shell.

Emily Kuroda
- School
- High
When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.

Emily Kuroda

Although I would like the negative balanced with the positive, what really bothers me is if it's not real. You can add humanity to what might look like a negative role.

Emily Kuroda
- Real
- Humanity
- Positive
In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.

Emily Kuroda
- School
I was in one of the first sitcoms that had a lot of Asians in it. It was called 'Gung Ho' on ABC.

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The thought of me wanting to act was not an option when I was growing up, so I was getting my teaching credential.

Emily Kuroda
- Up
- Growing
- Option
Seriously, how many times do you see Asian-American characters that have an actual family, feelings? You don't see them love and be sad and have all the human emotions. I think that 'Gilmore Girls' is one of the very, very few where we were offered a chance to explore these characters multidimensionally.

Emily Kuroda
- Family
- American
- Sad
I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them.

Emily Kuroda
- History
- Powerful

My mother came from Japan, and I really didn't understand her often. Now that I'm older, I do.

Emily Kuroda
- Mother