My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

In Morocco, there is an insistence on authority. Children are not encouraged to speak up in front of their parents. My parents were not like this. I was the kind of girl who could tell her father, 'No, what you are saying is totally untrue, and I don't agree with you.'

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.

I've got a lot of military kids who are not in on-base child care, and they should be. So it's things like that I'm going to change, either from a funding perspective or a policy perspective.