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I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out of treatment, the technology wouldn't keep ahead of my disease. And now all of the sudden, when you get the new heart, your life opens up before you again.