Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.