I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.