We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.

[The only bad guy in the show is House Speaker Nathan Templeton ( Donald Sutherland ), Allen's arch-nemesis,] and he's not that bad, ... On her side there's other people you can show who are shifty or a little shady.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that.

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.