In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

Whenever I'm around my guy friends, I'm always playing video games. I've always enjoyed the graphics side of them, how they look.

I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.