I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

I was somewhere between angry and turned-on.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti