I feel lucky because most of my friends aren't married. So I don't feel that, 'oh, step on it, you're thirty.'

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

It's weird, It's really weird to be called a breakout star. And some people are referring to my show as the new 'Friends', which I can't really even wrap my head around

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.

I like being put in embarrassing positions because it's the reason why I wanted to be an actress. I want to try different things and things that make me uncomfortable.

It's too scary in television. It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about.

My first acting role as a kid was on Freaks and Geeks.

Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.

Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

Oh precious heart, you think you're lost, look down look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on