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Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.