I knew if I had to struggle, I couldn't struggle in New York. My ego was too big for it. I couldn't be a guy who is starving when I had a very successful business when I was young.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was determined to make my way in the big world. And that meant New York.
Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.
You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.
I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.
I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.