I made a point to not read too far ahead with the first six or seven episodes of any show. I would read the outlines, but I didn't really want to read scripts too far in advance because I didn't really want to get ahead of myself, at all. To be honest, I don't have the time to come up with theories.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.