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

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

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.

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

An Asetian never tries to talk louder than the crowd surrounding him. An Asetian becomes that crowd.

Always live each day to the fullest, but don't forget to keep the future in mind.

Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.