I was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn't a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.

My sister and I were born in Chile and raised in the States, and my little brothers were born in the States and raised in Chile after my parents moved back in 1995.

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

The only thing that being killed off on 'Graceland' helped me with on 'Game of Thrones' is that it made me available to actually do the job.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.

The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.