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.
“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
“I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.”