class work, abandon sports and achieve a palness i have yet to shake off? >> your mom studied theater. wanted to be an actress. >> she was going to carnegie. >> was that something that -- she was then in haiti for reasons i'm not sure. >> i think it was haiti. it was in the caribbean. she got really sick with a tropical disease. classical, like a rare tropical disease. >> in the process of recovery ended up -- >> my dad said will you marry me? instead of having, you know, acting career, she started her own theater with 11 children. >> amazing -- that's how it was. but did her desire to act which was then given up to have this family, was that something that you absorbed? >> it seems obvious that that would be one of my motivators. >> right. >> that me with my mom/buddy, in