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I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.