My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.