Actor

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

I love dogs.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.

And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

I'm very goal oriented.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.

I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.