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My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, Can they get a picture with you? And I am thinking to myself, Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

I have always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!

I am almost a full-time mom.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you are a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.

It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it was not just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

I am not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

I told my agents that I did not want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, It is the coolest show. You have to go.

My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.

I am named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested Brooklyn as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.

You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That is the kind of congressman I will be.

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, I am never eating anything else again. And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It is not worse than anybody else life.

Now, if you are Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you are mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that is not a very good deal.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I am a mom. Now I am an adult! It only took 38 years!

I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, No, you are going to stay with it. Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It is been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, I can fly! Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.