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I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.