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 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.

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.

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

The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.

Welcome to thee, O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way.

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

I started out doing covers.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

California is an Italy without its art.

As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.