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My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.

As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.