If you meet a girl who has slept with 100 guys, you will think something of her you wouldn't think of a guy who slept with 100 girls.

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.

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.