Dr. Forbes Riley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And my sensibility was watching movies and TV.
And I kept thinking, if James Bond can do this, why can't I?
If James Bond can beat the Academy Awards and kiss Robert Redford, why can't I?
And I kept, those were my mentors.
They were not real people.
I just imagined what it would be like to be mentored by them.
And then all the books that I read.
And so when I go off, so get this.
I'm this goofy little girl.
My brace has finally come off.
My dad has a horrible accident.
He slips, he's a printer, and he cuts the whole front of his hand off.
I'm 15.
He's going to spend the next three years in the hospital, 15 operations.
We were flat broke.
We already lived in a 1,300-square-foot house anyway.
And we were a very loving family, but second-generation immigrants.
My dad didn't even vote because he didn't want to get called for jury duty because he'd miss a day of work.
So we were, like, wildly insulated.
We didn't really like the neighbors.