Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

A woman is a woman!

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

When I came out of school I didn't even think that modeling was a job.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take me for a walk and then always dropped me to school. I was very disciplined, as my father inculcated those values in me. Now that my father is no more, I understand that you should not take your parents for granted.

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

The thing about working on a Ryan Murphy TV show is that he has such an extraordinary collective of artists, so everyone is really like a family.