We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00 you know.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general well I have thought about other things throughout the years.

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while and now she's a painter.

I'm worried because of my mother she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad woah. Yeah they're going to see me like a woman you know?

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed he would yell downstairs to my mother who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European born in Copenhagen Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe met my dad fell in love and then moved back to Rome where I was raised between Rome and Hamburg.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

When I was growing up my mother would say 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.