I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
You don't really drive in cabs in L. A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.
If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.
Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.
Manhattan cabs are born old.
I don't want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don't want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn't do anything.
I'd be terrified even now for a Latin kid wanting to be an actor, but back then? Forget it. They must have thought I was going to be working in restaurants and driving cabs for the rest of my life.
