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I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me.

I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me.

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.