Directors look at me and think, Brooklyn, rough and tough. But I can also hang out with Helen Mirren.
- Vanessa Ferlito

I admire Cate Blanchett, because she does so many different roles.
- Vanessa Ferlito

I do all kind of accents and I haven't had a coach yet.
- Vanessa Ferlito

I don't see myself as famous.
- Vanessa Ferlito

I might even get a boyfriend on the show. I could use one. I'm single right now.
- Vanessa Ferlito

I stooped. I'd sit outside the building with my cousins, listen to the radio, talk shit on the phone. I stooped, you know?
- Vanessa Ferlito

I think about how I'm gonna be in 27 million or so houses each week, and that's a gift.
- Vanessa Ferlito

I was looking onto a screen, I had to be intimate with a face on the screen. It was pretty bizarre!
- Vanessa Ferlito

I'm so interested in seeing what my upcoming movies are going to be like. I love doing all of them. I've played a bunch of different roles—Latin, Italian, all-American, Southern—and been doing a bunch of different accents so far.
- Vanessa Ferlito

I'm still the girl who when people are looking at me, I'm thinking, 'What are they looking at?'
- Vanessa Ferlito

Now people are starting to think outside the box with me. I've played Latino parts, but I'm Italian.
- Vanessa Ferlito

People [make-up artists] always go over the top with my lips.
- Vanessa Ferlito

That's what inspires me—working with people like that [Gary Sinise]. He's amazing.
- Vanessa Ferlito