As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

I live with someone, actor Peter Krause, who didn't find an interest in being an actor until the very end of college. So my message is: There's so much freedom left. There's no ticking clock. It's just not true.

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.