We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

Very, that show is crazy. It was like doing finals every week. It was interesting. I really learned a lot. The dialogue is so technical. I was so impressed watching the other actors and how they managed, so I studied them. And I was blown away thinking: "How do they do that? How do they put that extra spin on the complicated dialogue to make it interesting?

I knew Linda Cardellini from when we did ER together - she was always great, such a cool spirit.

I'm just more comfortable with people who are like me than the people who are not.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.