I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

I've worked with children all my life.

By the way, sitting with other mommies is probably the most frightening experience in the entire world. They're serious into mommy-shaming.

When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.

I remember my father telling me that just like Troy, he could get me in with the water department where he worked in New York. He talked about how he could get me on the job, and if I stayed 25 years, I could probably work my way up to be a supervisor and how it was a good union and all of the benefits and that I was going to make $20,000 in 50 years or whatever it was. He couldn't see that far.

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.