Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a glamorous model on a mainstream TV show.

As a girl growing up in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and then India, the idea of cracking the industry in America seemed crazy. So thankfully, the way I was raised was to be an open person.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they're like, 'You ready kid? Let's go.'

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.

We are extremely proud of our 'ABC funny' brand. We think that we have a very distinctive brand of family comedies.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.