Ben Vereen Is Going To Be On

My Mother Was An Artist And Highly Strung, Whereas My Father Was Much Calmer.

No, I'm A Theatrical, Live Performer Or A Movie Performer.

If We Had A Hard Time, My Mother Would Sit Me Down And We Would Talk About It, And She Kept Talking And Kept Processing Until We Started To Laugh About It.

My Family's Been In Show Business Since The 1700s. I Traced Them. I'm Bred To This. Like A Racehorse. A Thoroughbred. Look At My Parents, My God. But It Was My Curiosity That Made Me Do This. Because You Could Also Say: "look At Frank Sinatra Jr." It's Not Like A Natural Thing That Happens. You Gotta Work.

Reality Is Something You Rise Above.