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I Didn't Really Like My Birthday As A Kid. My Mother Used To Say, "sometimes We'd Have A Birthday Party And You Would Just Wander Off." But She Said It Was Just My Way In The World. It Wasn't Anything That I Was Truly Interested In.

I'm A Highly, Highly, Highly Creative Human Being. I Write Music All The Time. I Write Scripts Constantly. I Run My Own Production Company. I'm Also A Very Determined Businesswoman. I've A Town To Deal With. I've Got A Lot Of Things To Do And I Don't Have Time To Be Classified As Difficult, And I Don't Have Time To Care.

I Went To The University Of Georgia For A Year Before I Left, And Then I Went To Live With Eileen Ford In New York For The Modeling Agency. I Thank God I Could Do That Because All The Other Kids Were Getting Jobs Doing Other Things, And When I Got To New York, I Was Very Blessed. I Didn't Have To Stop And Be A Waitress. I Started Making Money At A Very Young Age And Was Just Very Lucky.

As A Child, I Was Very Shy. Painfully, Excruciatingly Shy. I Hid A Lot In My Room. I Was So Terrified To Read Out Loud In School That I Had To Have My Mother Ask My Reading Teacher Not To Call On Me In Class.

A Lot Of Actresses Like To Repeat Things Over - And I Don't Once I've Been There And Done That. I Like To See What The Next Thing Is That Comes Along.