My first acting role as a kid was on Freaks and Geeks.

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.

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

When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer.

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?