A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.
A lot of the people that come out of Channel One really only have one step to go, and that's the next big step.
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
Before this Bond thing came around, I grew up playing a lot of videogames. Obviously Nintendo, and all that. I still know all the codes!
I always wanted to play hockey, and my parents wouldn't let me. I swear, they're not bad parents, they just wanted to protect me.
I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy , To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.
I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.
I learned how to play some Xbox, and I had to learn how to play DOA 2. I'm a big fan.
I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.
I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.
I think Channel One was very integral in my career.
I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.
I was in choir my whole life. I'm hoping at some point to be able to explore singing again as well, because I still take singing lessons every week.
I was living in Boston, so there wasn't very much I could do in the Hollywood arena.
I went to South Africa and did this wonderful three part series on the AIDs epidemic.
I'm happiest when I'm doing a million things. I don't see my career going in any one direction. I see myself doing a potpourri of things.
I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.
If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.
Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.
It's meant to encourage teens across the country to look at the problems in their communities and come up with solutions.
My parents were really against it. And that's how I ended up getting into television and broadcasting, because my parents wouldn't allow acting.
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.
So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.
Someone I've always really admired and respected was Oprah. It was great to see that someone was forging the same ground I always wanted to forge, where I could be a part of a movie, be a host, be entrepreneurial... she kind of represents that total package that I've always wanted to be.
Someone like me from Medford, Massachusetts would have never expected in my wildest dreams that that would ever happen to me.
That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.
The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.
The perk of being on the other end is you're kind of in control, and I like that. But then again, I do like to give up the control sometimes (with the acting), and I like that also.
The thing that people don't know about Channel One is that it's very much on the level of a CNN, but for teenagers.
The west coast editor of Glamour magazine is one of my really good friends, and she came to visit me on the set.
There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.
Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.
We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure.
When you're at Channel One, you're getting thrown right into the thick of things.
You have to plan your next move and figure out what the best move is. It's not just people dictating to you what to do.
You have to take control of your own career.
You have your managers, your agents, your lawyers, your publicists, and your colleagues that you have to coordinate things with.
Maria was number five on the AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006 list.
Maria's won Spike TV's Video Game Awards for Cyber Vixen of the Year as Eva in James Bond 007: From Russia With Love.
Maria appeared in People magazine in 2004 as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People."
Maria left ET on MTV & ET on VH1 in 2005 to focus on her acting career.
During her senior year, Maria was hired as a reporter for Channel One News.
Maria is an actress, journalist, television presenter.
Maria made 12 guest appearances on One Tree Hill, so far.
Maria speaks Greek fluently.
Maria was an anchor on Channel One, a news program for school children usually played during the school day. She was the international correspondant.
When Maria first joined Entertainment Tonight, she was a correspondent, reporting on film, television, music and fashion.
Maria's trademark is her laugh which she says is a cross between Fran Drescher and Woody Woodpecker.
Maria has a cameo in the Fantastic Four movie as a love interest of Chris Evans.
Maria hosts both ET on MTV and ET on VH1 every Saturday, although both shows are exactly the same news.
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