I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

I think that's something that always enticed me about the '40s - back then, the glamour and the style - you couldn't really make it up. You just were or you weren't. You either fit in that world or you fit in the other. Things were very cut and dry. Things were simple. There wasn't a whole lot of excess or flash to be flashy; it was real flash, and real excitement.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

It's a great place to be at 36 because you're an adult and you're responsible for how you impact other people, the direction of your own life [too], but you're also young enough to say, "You know what? I'm not sure of where I'm at, and I'm going to change that course and do something different. I'm going to look at life differently." I think that's the magic of that age.