My mother and I always had full adult communication.

I knew it was Fordham the first time I saw it. I fell in love with the communication program, the size of the school and the coaching staff was a great bunch of people.

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.

Thirty is a full orchestra, but we want to have a big orchestra.

I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.