My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

When I'm Los Angeles, it's work. That's what I'm there for is work.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.