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Now I've gotten to know more about the industry. And now that I'm over 18, I can work without my parents on set. That was nice and helped me get comfortable.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.

I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarter a day. But I was always making things like duck a l'orange and baked Alaska. I was a little bit nutty.