I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.