Mara Wilson: My Diagnosis Saved Me
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown
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My Dad and I Grew Up in Burbank, California
I don't know anyone who grew up in Burbank, and I live in LA and have always lived there. Were your parents from Southern California? No, they weren't. But one of my brothers, he guess, kind of got bitten by the bug and he wanted to do it. So he started doing commercials. He was in like a sizzler commercial. And then he, he was in some movies. My mom used to say he had small parts in big movies and big parts in small movies. When I told my mom that I wanted to act she immediately said, no, you don't. She set me up on a mock audition to try to dissuade me.
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