Vanessa Ferlito

Vanessa: (about if her family have scripts they want her to read or do) People have scripts. 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. 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've kind of stuck to my [roots]. I left, but I never really left.

Vanessa: (about what is her family's favorite thing to talk about) They ask me about other actors. What bothers me is when they say, "I read Us Weekly. Is that true? Do you believe she did that?" And I'm like, "I'm not that actor. You'll never see me in that. They don't want to know what I'm doing. I live a quiet life. I'm not dating anybody famous. They don't care about me. I have no idea if that stuff is true. Don't even ask. You shouldn't even be reading that." So they'll ask me stuff like that. And I'm like it's so not like that. I have no idea. "Is she really infertile?" You know, they say she's going for fertility and I'm like, "That's so f*cked up that they go there with women like that. That's such a personal [thing.]" Stuff like that they'll ask about actors. They love to know about that and also some people, even older, want to get into the business now. They say to me, and I'm all for a dream, they'll say, "My father never let me, or grandpa. Do you think I can now?" I just lead them in the right direction. I have no idea what's going to happen. You know how Hollywood can be, it's not nice at times.

Vanessa: I was a famous club kid in New York. We used to put parties together. This club called Life and they did an eight page story on us as if it was brain surgery. You would think what we did, why are we on the cover of this thing? Anyway, thank God for that. From there, it was that time. It was like '98, clubs were in, it was like that time and they were psyched for us. They always wanted the club kids to do a cameo in the movies, so that's how it happened. I was like, "Oh, yeah, an agent, sure, I'll go out." 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. I'm still waiting for calls, but my path was a little different when it came to the business.