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.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

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.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

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

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!