My Mother Told Me Not To Listen

I Remember Sitting In School And Thinking, 'i Don't Know Why I'm Here, Because I Know I'm Going To Act And I Know I'm Going To America.'

Sometimes My Ethnicity Is Relevant, Other Times Not. I Definitely Get The Best Of Both Worlds.

I Had A Dialect Coach To Get An American Accent, And Then Another Dialect Coach To Come Off It A Bit. There Is Something Deep And Mysterious In The Voice When It Isn't Too High-pitched American.

A Lot Of The Time, People Want To Hear From Someone Like Myself. They Want To Give It A Shot. It's Challenging, And It's Driven Me More Than Discouraged Me.

As Soon As I Moved To New York, I Experienced Hurricane Irene And Then Hurricane Sandy Hit Me In Quite A Big Way. I Had 12 Days Without Any Electricity Or Any Water. The Thing That I Realized The Most From It Was That We've Become So Dependent On Technology. There's So Much Accessibility To Information That Suddenly When Everything Is Cut Off, You're Completely Lost, And You Start Asking Deeper And More Profound Questions - How Short Life Is, And How Grateful We Should Be For Things.