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 have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.

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.

Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family.