I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.
I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
I am the odd man out in the family.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.