Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects.
				The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.			
				
			There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.			 
			

 
