I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

I have a very strong distinction between work and my life. They are not the same and I don't want to ever feel that on a day to day basis that I have to live up to people's expectations, because you never can do that so I don't want to put that pressure on myself.

Danny DeVito knows about the business from many different perspectives, because he is a producer and director as well as an actor. At one point we were on the set late at night and he said: 'come here I want to brush your hair'. I said 'ok'. He sat there brushing my hair and told me that his job before becoming an actor was as a hair stylist in Manhattan. I said "what?" But it is true.

But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.