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

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

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've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

I came from a Sorkin-like project in the sense that there was no freedom to change a line, which, in a weird way, is its own freedom because you're living within that structure and know this is what it is. You just adjust. Every project has its own personality.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.