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My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.

I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

My mother was a teacher.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.