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

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

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.

I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.

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.

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

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.