I came from a real working-class show business family.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

I started to repeat to myself "If I'm not where I want to be, it's because I'm not good enough... yet." Which meant it was up to me.

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

Quit thinking about your weight and start thinking about your worth and who you are and what you haven't done yet. What you want to accomplish.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.