I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

Once you have the money, fame, success or power, it's so easy to maintain that, because all you have to do is play it safe.

I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?