I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

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So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

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Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

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I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

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To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

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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.

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And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.

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