I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

I look after myself. I train and go to the gym.

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.