I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

In Washington, there are jobs that have official titles: chief of staff, campaign manager, director of communications. Then there are all these vague and murky headings over people who are just special consultants or advisers. We really don't know what their gig is.

I think there's different parenting styles.

My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to those charged by moneylenders. Borrowing then becomes more to meet pressing consumption needs, rather than for farming or small-scale enterprises.

It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?