I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

they'd become unaccustomed to the brightness of their own city, and, faced with it now in all its intensity, they cupped their hands over their eyes as if staring into the sun.

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't get caught in the trap of small steps.