I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

You have a lot more to give, the older you get. And you want to give it. I mean, some people want to give it. But there is a desire to pass down, to have a hand in the past and a hand in the future. There's a continuum.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.