If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet.

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.

It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.