I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

I'm a big Aqua fan. "Barbie Girl" was a big deal growing up.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!

....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

We can't dispose of the everydayness of people's struggles. We have to build a world that is ultimately supposed to be, very simply, everybody doing what they are happiest doing.

Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.