PENNY MARSHALL

My family is well, and that's what's important.

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying.

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

I would much rather feel comfortable and feel beautiful, than to feel uncomfortable, but look fantastic.

My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.

I wish I could sing better.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.

I have season tickets to the Lakers and the Clippers.

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

I'm not someone who has had to deal with much personal drama outside of the usual: growing up with parents who hated each other, two marriages and divorces of my own. There was the cancer thing, too.

I'm not a hockey fan. I'm not a golf fan.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

I don't startle easily.

I have a good support system of friends and family.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!

Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.

The truth is that I am not a frump... I just enjoy being laid back.

I wasn't like a girly girl. I was a tomboy.