I'm taking my time with the acting and learning as I go.

When I moved back home, I took the initiative to involve my entire family in my career because I didn't find that anyone else was as passionate and thorough.

I know I'm different. Even when I think about an acting career, there are so many limited roles to begin with. I have the ability to be Spanish, Indian, Italian, black, Persian. What roles do I see that compliment that?

I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS.

I have my own show. I get to work in Hollywood on my own project. If I can still make it back home by eight to put the kids in bed, then wow: I am having my cake and eating it, too.

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.