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I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

I grew up in a good family with good parents, and I was able to dream big and have the support to live it out.

I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.