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I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.