I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don't experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can't live the uni lifestyle. But I've never, ever thought about quitting football.

In life, if you're not learning from every experience, even the bad ones, you're really messing up. That's the marker of a smart, intelligent individual.