When I visit a country, I like to experience local food.

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.

I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.