The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
Vanessa Ferlito
I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star treatment like that. I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood.
New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.
Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
