To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

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

Oh, my only - if I had one frustration in being on 'West Wing' is I wasn't on it enough, because I was in and out.