My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
“They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”
“The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.”