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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'