My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

Life is stranger than biology textbooks.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

President Obama has done more damage to America than any American has since 1776

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.