It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don't talk about the arts there much on career day.
My father grew up in West Texas, in Lubbock, and I've got family here, and I grew up a Dallas Cowboy fan all my life.
Anybody that knows me knows that I'm a huge fan of Texas. I live and breathe Texas.
I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.
When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always.
I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.
A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
I have a good fan base in Texas. It's almost like a second home.
Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Every year, my family and I would go visit my mom's family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.
But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.
You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.
As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.
I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!
I come from Texas. We're a different brand of people. You're not changing who I am.
I didn't come from the West Coast experience, I came from Dallas and I was an introvert and a nerd.
