When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?

It's nice when people approach you to help.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.