Tamlyn Tomita Quotes

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

I'm a history nerd. Actually acting's the best job for somebody who loves weird, different stuff.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. This is what makes the trade of historian so attractive.

History is not just a story related by a fool.

Historians are not good at hypothetical questions.

Writing history takes a great deal of imagination. I don’t mean making things up, but you have to be able to transport yourself to another time.

Confronted by an unknowable, historians demand evidence, witnesses, corroboration.

I write to learn the flow of history.

No two historians offer precisely the same reading of an historical event; if we did, far fewer articles and books would be published.

I like to think I'm a recovering historian.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.