My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

I like my hair long, and I love my bangs. I love them because I can pin them back or keep the fringe with attitude.

I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just something I was lucky enough to fall into.

L.A. is such a big city, and theres so much going on. I mean, you know youre in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.

I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.

I like mythology - anything historical.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.