My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.

I've led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of 'I need food on the table and I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage.'

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.